Actually coal and nuclear can only do base load: thermal power plants need hours to shutdown or to ramp up. That's why hydroelectric or gas peakers are needed for daily variations (peak hours).
So 100% nuclear is not doable.
Renewables plus batteries have no such issues. Imagine you want to equip your house: batteries for 24h and enough PV to handle the worst day of the year (a cloudy winter day). Done, you have 100% renewable 24/7. Super reliable. Want more reliability? Add more PV, more batteries.
Since nuclear had lost the battle of the costs, they invent nonsense rationale to try to save their industry.
Hey sounds great! Except that if you take every battery put together in the world right now, it probably doesn't have enough capacity to store even 10% of Europe's energy needs for a day. Oops!
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Actually coal and nuclear can only do base load: thermal power plants need hours to shutdown or to ramp up. That's why hydroelectric or gas peakers are needed for daily variations (peak hours). So 100% nuclear is not doable.
Renewables plus batteries have no such issues. Imagine you want to equip your house: batteries for 24h and enough PV to handle the worst day of the year (a cloudy winter day). Done, you have 100% renewable 24/7. Super reliable. Want more reliability? Add more PV, more batteries.
Since nuclear had lost the battle of the costs, they invent nonsense rationale to try to save their industry.
Hey sounds great! Except that if you take every battery put together in the world right now, it probably doesn't have enough capacity to store even 10% of Europe's energy needs for a day. Oops!