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Originally Posted by Frequitude
Again, nuclear isn’t something that supplements intermittent renewables. That’s the literal definition of baseload…it’s the base that is always on.
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I mean, that's true, but it's also true that having stable baseload power probably allows more renewable construction. As carbon prices increase our current natural gas generation which is providing baseload would switch over time to become peaker plants covering for renewable intermittancy.
Trying to build enough renewables/storage to cover our entire demand isn't likely to work, imo. But if we had nuclear baseload up to the amount of power we use at night that was always on, we could probably get to very low emissions by mostly using renewables and storage for the peak demand periods of the day, maybe with some natural gas on low-wind days and evenings.