In California, Nuclear Turns Off and Prices Go Up

[greenman3610]

5. hehe heh. That got the desired response

actually, nukes have to be refueled every 3 years or so, when they are down for 36 days or so.
So you have to have enormous back up if you build one right off the bat. Backup that you only
need once in a while, so is very costly to maintain - ratepayers are charged for that.

Of course, the California nuke in question closed because those pesky liberals
enforced "safety" standards because of some teeny weeny radiation leak.

What you're going to see is that, as wind development gains more steam, and as grids get
upgraded, which we have to do anyway, better interconnectedness will make up for
variability. In addition, during the months when in many areas, wind is the lightest, the
dog days of summer - solar will be coming more into play as a supplement.
so to die-hard warriors of big centralized energy, I say,

Chill out. We got this.