Environment & Energy

Question: If a coal plant, the overwhlming majority of which are, like nuclear plants, Rankine cycle plants, shut because jellyfish clogged the intake for cooling, would this be an important news item?

Is the statement in my post about German solar plants untrue?

What's the point? To say that nuclear energy is unreliable?

In any data based credible analytical survey, nuclear plants show the highest capacity utilization of any primary energy source on the planet, greater than solar and wind by a factor of two to three. Nuclear power also shows the lowest carbon cost in report after report after report, thousands of which are in my files. Finally nuclear energy shows the lowest costs in health damage of any primary energy system.

Attacks on nuclear energy always rely on selective attention. I note that the reason so called "renewable energy" was able to suck trillions of dollars out of the world economy for no environmental result other than destroying wilderness and making the world incresingly reliant on mining, and leaving vast streches of land in flames, was because it was fueled by antinuke selective attention. The consistent feature of antinukes is their indifference to the use of fossil fuels and contempt for the future of humanity.

I trust you're having a pleasant morning.