I’m just not going to watch

One of the possible reasons was too much sun power and not enough demand. Solar and wind are unreliable.

No.

The issue wasn’t that there was too much generation, or that it is unreliable.

It was a grid issue, it wouldn’t have mattered what generation was used (solar, wind, gas, nuclear, coal, etc…).

Don’t be mislead by everyone who jumped on the coal bandwagon a day after the incident before we even knew what the cause was.

Unless you live in the Arctic Circle, it does in fact work in Winter.

You provision enough solar so it still works in winter, then sell your excess in summer.

Don’t most countries offer subsidies for photovoltaics?

They do, but they also keep subsidising black energy too.

The nuclear waste that lasts for thousands of years isn’t going to be a problem.

It can be used to make betavoltaics.

We might actually run into the problem where we don’t have enough nuclear waste and we might need to spin up a reactor or two to keep making RTGs (for space) and betavoltaics.

Every German energy problem is entirely down to political self owns

But solar is unreliable.

Which is why you add storage and wind to the mix. Overproduce energy when it’s available and store the leftovers for when you under-produce.

At this point, saying Solar doesn’t work at night is kind of like saying cars don’t work without wheels. No one is getting solar without storage, just like no one is driving a car without wheels.

It’s kind of hard to judge considering the whiplash from Europe moving away from Russia.

Checkout the cost over time here (and set it to the 10 years view): https://tradingeconomics.com/spain/electricity-price

It’s cheaper now than 10 years ago, but the Russian invasion made everything way more volatile.

As I understand it, Spanish generation is cheap but its grid is outdated, so it’ll continue like that until more of the grid is switched out.

Not exactly, they reuse waste which reduces the amount of waste but makes the remaining waste more radioactive.

That isn’t a reason to not use nuclear though since either: the waste can be made worse (which also makes it better because it doesn’t last as long) and can be buried only for 200 years which is easy to manage, or the waste can be used as an ingredient in betavoltaics which gets rid of the waste (and might get us to the point where we need to spin up nuclear reactors just to make more waste to use).

Either way it doesn’t matter, green generation and storage are now to cheap for nuclear to be considered economical anymore.

Here’s the breakdown of Romanian Energy:

They still have a long way to go to be considered green.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Romania#/media/File:Energy-consumption-by-source-Romania.png

Thorium is awesome, but fully renewable energy plus storage got too cheap for any kind of nuclear to stand an economic chance.

No need, use a sail

Ironic

1. The video:

• The video literally goes over the numbers in worst case scenario for solar and still comes out ahead, while also going through a bunch of mistakes that people make and deconstructing the gotchas along the way.

1. Your comment:

• Saying you weren’t going to watch the full video
• Skimmed some of it and took some numbers and made mistakes

2. Someone else:

• Links to the video you skipped that would have gone through your mistakes before you commented.

3. Your response:

• This is the same video

YES! It already goes over the mistakes you were making.

On a side note, this was probably the best video I’ve seen in the last 12 months.

I thought it would be a nice and nerdy breakdown of solar panels, but the more I watched the better it got.

For those who did watch it: wow what a whiplash!