No wonder wind, solar and batteries are growing so fast...

[Finishline42]

Just like with nuclear - critical parts are backordered years

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[NNadir]

1. Oh goody. A tweet.

There are of course, people who consider tweets to be reputable sources; this is a measure of how poor thinking has become on this planet.

I wonder how it is that China has built more than 60 nuclear reactors in this century and has 39 under construction.

Got a clue?

Chinese nuclear power plants operating and under construction.

It doesn't seem like the antinukes in Germany have much trouble building gas plants.

Germany says new gas power plants will be online by 2031 following EU deal

Sorry, but the antinuke fantasy of tearing the shit out of the Earth's surface for mines run by slaves for bourgeois battery worshipping types, despoiling vast areas of wilderness, has never, not once allowed the solar and wind industry to produce the 31 Exajoules of primary energy nuclear energy produces each year.

We've been hearing about how fast solar and wind grow for decades. How come the planet is in flames?

Solar and wind are trivial, expensive and useless forms of energy - if being "useful" had something to do with addressing the use of fossil fuels, about which antinukes and "I'm not an antinuke" couldn't care less. After more than 5 trillion dollars squandered on them in the last ten years alone, combined they produce just about 18 Exajoules of energy - the unit of energy is the Joule, not the (peak) Watt - and have never grown as fast as fossil fuels grow each year:

Here, from the most recent edition, are the figures, in Exajoules, for the primary energy produced from each energy source in the most recent edition: World Energy Outlook 2025:



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A battery, if one has taken a good high school or college level science course involving thermodynamics, is a device that destroys exergy. If solar and wind were really backed up by batteries, the result would be to make the available energy even less than the trivial 18 Exajoules for a 5.6 trillion dollar expense. But overwhelmingly, solar and wind are not backed up by batteries; they're backed up by fossil fuels, about which, again, antinukes couldn't care less. The batteries, like solar and wind themselves, and like hydrogen, are lipstick on the fossil fuel pig.