SGU Prem #125 - May 17 2020
Added 2020-05-17 13:20:58 +0000 UTCYour Questions and E-mails: Nuclear vs Renewables
Extra interview segment with Gerald Posner
Comments
I did not realize they did that, that's great. I'm new to the premium content, and had assumed it would just be mostly the same episode, as you assumed. I will definitely visit more for the extra content!
thefriz
2020-09-30 00:49:18 +0000 UTCI appreciate that the extra content was a portion of the interview that I didn't just finish listen to in the main episode. It can be frustrating to listen to an extended version that is mostly the same as the episode I (typically) just finished listening to. I'm not sure if that made any sense, but thanks.
Joseph Lamoree
2020-05-26 14:41:07 +0000 UTCI have mentioned putting the audio of the weekly live streams on youtube in the premium feed to no answer. Seems like it would be easy enough
lonnie
2020-05-22 04:27:04 +0000 UTCI wish there was a little more effort put into premium content and more often.
Kevin Schuette
2020-05-18 18:18:23 +0000 UTCIf you have enough storage you no longer need baseload power.
Ted Apelt
2020-05-18 00:45:05 +0000 UTCIsn't it to do with baseload power needing to be replaced which sadly solar and wind arent viable as baseload power providers at least at the moment. The idea is the baseload would probably need to be nuclear and the use of smaller mass produced modular reactors would lower the price of nuclear. This combined with actually picking up the tab for releasing carbon would make the energy cheaper per kw.
Mitchel Hicks
2020-05-17 22:40:16 +0000 UTCIn places like Florida where pumped storage won't work we can split water into hydrogen and oxygen then use hydrogen gas turbines to generate electricity.
Ted Apelt
2020-05-17 17:54:10 +0000 UTCWe are also way below our capacity to produce electrical storage facilities, mostly because there is little need for them, not because we can't do it. The total generating capacity of the Grand Coulee Dam is 6,809 megawatts and its average annual energy output is about 2,300 megawatts. The total generating capacity of the Hoover Dam is 2,080 megawatts and its average annual energy output is about 480 megawatts. Both of these could have pumping stations pumping water back uphill for energy storage. Why haven't they been built? We have no current need for them because most of our energy comes from fossil fuels, and there is plenty of unburned fossil fuels for energy storage.
Ted Apelt
2020-05-17 17:51:02 +0000 UTCAgain, you totally ignored the worst drawback of nuclear, which is the huge construction costs. It costs nine times as much per megawatt as it does for solar or wind. The operating costs per megawatt hour are also higher.
Ted Apelt
2020-05-17 17:39:26 +0000 UTC
