CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agoHow dependent is France on Niger's uranium?www.lemonde.frexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down12
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkHow dependent is France on Niger's uranium?www.lemonde.frCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square139fedilink
minus-squareMatthewToad43@climatejustice.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago@Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis What do you mean it doesn’t scale linearly? If you need to over-build by 3x, then it costs £150/MWh. If you need to use £170/MWh storage for 10% of demand (plausible for hydrogen), you still get a very reasonable figure. There’s no obvious non-linearity here. Switching off renewables is trivial, unlike thermal plant.
@Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis What do you mean it doesn’t scale linearly?
If you need to over-build by 3x, then it costs £150/MWh.
If you need to use £170/MWh storage for 10% of demand (plausible for hydrogen), you still get a very reasonable figure.
There’s no obvious non-linearity here. Switching off renewables is trivial, unlike thermal plant.