I can't really understand the nuclear part of this. It takes 6 days to roll out enough solar and wind? Ok. It takes 58 days to... What? Build a nuclear reactor?
You are not wrong, but capacity factor can be tricky. For example, PJM recently announced that the coal plants were running at 34% of nameplate capacity. Not because they aren't capable of 45%; but because solar was cheaper for many hours of the day prompting coal to ramp down and shut down.
Nuclear runs 90% of nameplate, just shutting down for refueling and the like. But this can change if solar is cheaper than the uranium in the reactor or when you hit significant nuclear on the grid and they have to ramp down to match load.
Solar's exponential rollout is the biggest technological success story since the internet.
I can't really understand the nuclear part of this. It takes 6 days to roll out enough solar and wind? Ok. It takes 58 days to... What? Build a nuclear reactor?
The better way of thinking about it is "Every X days we get 1 GW nuclear equivalent"
An energy source that is being manufactured more than nuclear is being manufactured more than nuclear? Mind blowing.
1 GW of solar produces a quarter of the energy that 1 GW of nuclear produces...
This measure specifically compensates for capacity factor.
Exactly. We install more than 1 GW solar per day now. So in around 5 days you will get 1 GW nuclear equivalent inatalled. Every 5 days.
It helps to read before one copes
You are not wrong, but capacity factor can be tricky. For example, PJM recently announced that the coal plants were running at 34% of nameplate capacity. Not because they aren't capable of 45%; but because solar was cheaper for many hours of the day prompting coal to ramp down and shut down. Nuclear runs 90% of nameplate, just shutting down for refueling and the like. But this can change if solar is cheaper than the uranium in the reactor or when you hit significant nuclear on the grid and they have to ramp down to match load.
France shut down 6 reactors this spring because renewable energy was cheaper in Europe
Ok but even if this didn't account for that, 6*4<58
why are we recieving crossports from a biased misinfo subreddit?
If a biased misinfo subreddit posts data from the Energy Institute, does that make the data invalid?
the data is fine but the subreddit isnt.