"Green" policies are destroying this country

Wind, solar and nuclear all need dispatchable backup and spinning reserve.

Black Swan events aren't all that rare with nuclear.

Can you predict an automatic SCRAM ? (US stats show that with 4 reactors you'd expect such an outage every 6 months, other countries are worse) and you need to replace 75% of that loss within 5 seconds and the other 25% by 10 seconds later. LOTS of spinning reserve needed, ALL THE TIME.

Could you predict that Japan would lose 100% of it's nuclear power and then keep it off for an extended period.

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Can you predict how much wind there will be in 4 days time ? That's how we know how much dispatchable plant to have up and running then and when to have it running.

Wind turbines need ZERO spinning reserve, because until we get a wind farm over 450MW it's the largest generator which is thermal plant that determines spinning reserve needs. Even then we wouldn't need to provide spinning reserve if there's an expected surplus of renewables as we could just stop diverting to storage.

Can you predict how long it will take to get power from a wind farm under construction ? (compare and contrast to EDF getting 14 years of additional financing for a plant that's already going to be 10 years late)

Excess renewables improves grid security by providing more power when conditions aren't optimum and allows you to re-use power produced when conditions were better from storage or import/export.

Nuclear means worrying about losing a large chunk of your grid at once and/or where to get power from for months or years if there's an extended outage.

Could you have predicted that France would lose 50% of it's power or that Italy and Germany would close down ALL of their plants ?

Can you predict which nuclear construction projects will be abandoned ? Or will be more than 5 years late ?

Nuclear is reliable, but not reliable enough to justify the risks and delays.

The often repeated claim is that nuclear lasts 60 years. Going back perhaps 3,500 years to Moses the Bible lists human life expectancy as 70 years and while people do live that long it's only been true for the average person in recent times and only in the richest counties. It's not a given.

So while in theory it's possible for reactors to reach 60 years, in practice if you exclude the reactors still under construction then of the 737 reactors where construction started none, zero got to 60 years on the grid and because there's only 410 still active it means they'd have to run for 107 years to bring the average reactor up to 60 years.

Altogether now "This time it'll be different"

Wind turbines can be refurbished and reused or resold or recycled. Blades are just 5% of the initial cost and can be replaced and those made of carbon fibre can be thermally treated, glass fibre can be used in cement plants. Future blades will be more recyclable. There's a market for second hand turbines.

Speaking of 60 years, I like the idea of floating turbines that can be towed back to port for maintenance, like the Flip Ship has been doing since 1962.