Enlighten me...
What does this 100 Gw of renewable storage look like? Dr. Steven Chu, myself, and the other scientists of DOE would like to know what 100 Gw of renewable storage looks like.
Is it flywheels, pumped storage, batteries......? Just what is this 100 Gw of storage.
Additionally, storage isn't rated just by the power, but by the total energy stored. Sure we may have a storage system that puts out 100 Gw; but for how long? A few hours?? A few days?? A few week???
Additionally, I don't see the combination of renewables and storage costing less than nuclear fission.
That would only be true if you use the estimates from the likes of UCS who assume that they will be able to drive the price up by an order of magnitude by the delaying tactics of filing lawsuits. I don't see that happening under current nuclear regulation laws.
Additionally, the GE Mark I units in Japan are not the same as GE Mark I units in the USA. Japan / Hitachi / Toshiba "licensed" the Mark I design from GE. Additionally, even though GE provided reactors for 2 of the Fukushima Units ( 1 and 6 ); the rest of the plant doesn't strictly follow the GE design as those in the USA do.
The US NRC requires venting that the Fukushima Units don't have ( hence the hydrogen explosions ), and in the USA, backup diesel generators and their fuel tanks are required to be in water-tight vaults and buried. The Fukushima generators were below grade in non-watertight basement, and the fuel tanks sat on the surface at dockside.
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