In California, Nuclear Turns Off and Prices Go Up

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1. more evidence that depending on intermittent sources like nuclear inevitably raise prices

http://climatecrocks.com/2013/03/28/intermittent-power-from-baseload-nuclear-plant-raises-prices-for-consumers/

If a unit of distributed electric generation, say a wind turbine, or a solar panel, has a problem, you can shut it down and replace it without pulling a huge amount of power off the grid. You certainly wouldn’t have to evacuate a city, or raise anyone’s prices.

Of course, WindBaggers like to say that renewable energy is “intermittent” – as if EVERY form of energy wasn’t intermittent. Nothing operates 100 percent – the question is, do you have a system that is cumbersome, expensive, and brittle, or resilient and forgiving when something goes wrong

(see below for what the sudden interruption of huge San Onofre (SONGS) power plant looks like)