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Ooops@feddit.org 8 hours agoAnother important note about France: They are the second country alongside Germany heavily pushing for an upscaled green hydrogen market in the EU. Because -just like renewables- nuclear production doesn’t match the demand pattern at all. Thus it’s completely uneconomical without long-term storage.
The fact that we seem to constantly discuss nuclear vs. renewables is proof that it’s mostly lobbying bullshit. Because in reality they don’t compete. It’s either renewables+short-term storage+long-term-term storage or renewables+nuclear+long-term storage. Those are the only two viable models.
iii@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
That’s been the talk in town for 40 years now. Green hydrogen has never gotten beyond proof-of-concept.
Sadly, it’s because the political green parties available to are anti-nuclear.
Why is nuclear+short term storage not an option, according to you?
Ooops@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Why is nuclear+short term storage not an option
Because cold winter days exist. Yes you can only build nuclear capacities for the average day and then short-term storage to match the demand pattern. But you would need to do so for the day(s) of the year with the highest energy demand, a cold winter day. What do you do with those capacities the remaining year as throttling nuclear down is not really saving much costs (most lie in construction and deconstruction)?
gnygnygny@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Due to the recent nuclear hype uranium price will rise and keep in mind that the resource will not exceed a century.