"It peaked above 100 GW in 2012, more than 50% above the maximum output of the entire nuclear fleet." The…
The flip side of the nuclear fiasco is that Japan is IIRC the only OECD country expanding its fossil fuel…
As always, compared to what? The seismic risks to nuclear plants are horrendous, as Fukushima showed. Fossil fuel plants and…
Yes for European ambition and yes to strong governance. I do wonder about a carbon budget. There is no global…
[…] like every other form of power, renewable energy can be vulnerable to natural disasters (although considering the alternatives, the…
I am an undergraduate in Taiwan and have been intensively following your articles in this blog, since I am about…
In Fessenheim the water patches were seen again: (in German) https://www.baden.fm/nachrichten/offenbar-erneute-ueberschwemmung-im-atomkraftwerk-fessenheim-153064/ The new French governments wants to dispatch more atom…
[…] with wind & solar is cheaper in the mid-term, but eventually wind and solar peaks will hit the must-run…
[…] scenarios. Both of which were written by (non-German) proponents of nuclear. As I showed in a previous post, that…
Lousy investors, walk away even when forced to sell to the 'friends of the government' .... 😉 http://www.standard.net/Business/2017/06/10/Polish-coal-affection-poses-dilemma-for-funding-hungry-firms The grid's…