I listened to a whole Joe Rogan podcast where a guest kept advocating for using nuclear to balance out the intermittent nature of solar and wind.
I could never wrap my mind around how this makes sense. Nuclear has a fixed output, it doesn’t scale up and down the way fossil fuel plants do.
If your nuclear capacity can cover the worst case where solar and wind aren’t producing, it can cover all cases, and the solar and wind become irrelevant.
Seems like the linked concept is similarly making something more complicated in the hopes that somehow makes it better.
I could never wrap my mind around how this makes sense. Nuclear has a fixed output, it doesn’t scale up and down the way fossil fuel plants do.
If your nuclear capacity can cover the worst case where solar and wind aren’t producing, it can cover all cases, and the solar and wind become irrelevant.
Seems like the linked concept is similarly making something more complicated in the hopes that somehow makes it better.
Like bundling subprime mortgages.