Should California’s last nuclear power plant stay open?(sandiegouniontribune.com)
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Should California’s last nuclear power plant stay open?
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2021-11-12/should-californias-last-nuclear-power-plant-stay-open
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Just ban all forms of prime movers because all of them are bad for the environment. Let Tesla owners charge their cars with diesel generators.
Both Japan and Germany chose to accelerate their nuclear decommissions, thereby extending their use of fossil fuels.
Realisticly California needs to lower it’s power consumption. Diablo Canyon is old, and potentially unsafe in the near future, but you can’t build anything to replace it, that will take 10 years.
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It would be nice if new plants could be built in places lacking the issues causing the closure. Then this wouldn't be such a question.
Nuclear power is the only viable solution to climate change. Oil companies promote wind and solar because neither can generate enough consistent power to offer a real threat. Oil companies fight nuclear power with dirty tactics like backing anti-nuclear environmental groups because nuclear is the only real replacement for oil.
> The U.S. installed 5.7 gigawatts of solar PV capacity in Q2 2021 to reach 108.7 gigawatts of total installed capacity, enough to power 18.9 million American homes.[1]
> EIA expects that most large-scale battery energy storage systems to come online over the next three years will be built at power plants that also produce electricity from solar photovoltaics, a change in trend from recent years.[2]
1. https://www.seia.org/us-solar-market-insight 2. https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/us-large-scal...
> EIA expects that most large-scale battery energy storage systems to come online over the next three years will be built at power plants that also produce electricity from solar photovoltaics, a change in trend from recent years.[2]
1. https://www.seia.org/us-solar-market-insight 2. https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/us-large-scal...
Solar only works during the day. We have no battery technology, even remotely close to being able to store the power needed when the sun isn't shining.
Houses are not all that big of energy, only using 1/3 of what the US has. The US as a whole needs 3.8 trillion kilowatt hours a year. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
Houses are not all that big of energy, only using 1/3 of what the US has. The US as a whole needs 3.8 trillion kilowatt hours a year. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
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