The fools in Alaska are getting heavy into wind and solar. Recent story about how one utility is making a giant investment in TESLA batteries to take over the short load bumps from their NG plant. CO2 reduction and all. Stupidity of an extreme degree, given that the state does not have a linked grid. Almost all the power is produced in isolated cells, so when your plant goes down, you are SOL. Even the patched together grid from Fairbanks to the Kenia peninsula is a mash up of six separate utilities with their own fiefdoms charging each other carrier fees. Hard to get your “cheap” wind power anywhere when, by the time it gets where it is needed, the cost has quintupled with all the fees.
AK is a place that could benefit from micro nuke plants. I think there was interest in Toshiba closet nukes clay > On Dec 26, 2019, at 7:37 PM, Larry Turner via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Unfortunately, the US has a number of Nukes that will require retirement or > refueling in the near term. Without a program to build more we will depend > on coal/fossil fuel plants to provide power. Else, the US may have some dark > days and cold nights.... > > I was hopeful we might see Va start it's Nuke Power industry with Vepco > looking at a new reactor in the Western part of the state. Haven't heard > anything lately. > > LarryT > > On 12/20/2019 2:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >> SWITZERLAND47-year-old nuclear power plant shuts down on live TVPublished: >> Friday, December 20, 2019 >> >> Switzerland today shut down one of its oldest nuclear power plants, part of >> a plan to end the domestic production of atomic energy before the middle of >> the century. >> >> Operator BKW took the Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant, located 25 miles west >> of the capital Bern, off the grid shortly after midday in a ceremony >> broadcast live by Switzerland's main public TV station. >> >> BKW, which is majority owned by the canton of Bern, said it plans to begin >> dismantling the plant in January, a process that will take until 2034. >> Decommissioning and deposing of radioactive remains is estimated to cost 3 >> billion Swiss francs ($3.1 billion). >> >> Mühleberg is the smallest of Switzerland's four remaining nuclear power >> plants. It began operation in 1972. >> >> After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, Switzerland >> decided to gradually phase out nuclear power. >> >> Switzerland is home to the world's oldest still-operating nuclear power >> plant, Beznau, which will be shut down toward the end of 2029. >> >> The remaining two nuclear plants, Gösgen and Leibstadt, will be shuttered >> around 2040 and 2045, respectively. >> >> Switzerland plans to significantly increase the production of renewable >> energy from solar and wind over the coming decades to meet its power needs. >> As part of the European grid, Switzerland also buys electricity from >> neighboring countries such as France, which has numerous nuclear power >> plants. >> >> Earlier this week, campaigners submitted enough signatures to force a >> referendum on incorporating the goal of making Switzerland "climate >> neutral" by 2050 in the country's constitution. Doing so would require >> ending virtually all burning of fossil fuels by midcentury. *— Associated >> Press* >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
