Nuclear - future for Ireland?

Nuclear is cheaper than renewables and is the most reliable source of power there is. It requres far less backup than renewables.

How much capital now would that be compared to say offshore wind turbines over the lifespan of a NPP ?

If you know how much for an NPP surely you know how much for what you are trying to sell. If not then I do not see what, if any point you have, posting about NPPs

For someone who is not anti nuclear you sure are doing everything that pushes us more towards unreliable, expensive and ever more dependent on gas future while rewarding likes of China burning coal and using slaves

Unfortunately we can’t build more hydro but we sure can build nuclear, Ukraine a country with a third our gdp is building and maintaining a mostly nuclear grid in middle of an active war ffs

Meanwhile the alternative the Greens pushed this country down is gonna cost an additional 200bn+ (per the figures the anti nuclear lot posted earlier in thread) and still not be ready by 2050, that’s on top of our already most expensive electricity in world

My bad. It seems I may have misunderstood and you know when, how, with what and with what cost to both our economy and consumers we will get to a 100% renewables zero emission grid.

Have I got it right this time ?

When will the 37GW of offshore wind be ready and how much

Extra funny as all this unreliable wind and solar is leading us to become more reliant on gas in perpetuity unlike nuclear

Aside, which of the EROIE figure he posted are wrong

Yet again the anti science and engineering crowd is disputing basic physics, what’s next Covid denial and flat earthering?

These offshore farms last 20 years, that’s a quarter of a nuclear plant lifetime

So that’s 4x the cost right there

They also at best produce 35% capacity factor that is mostly random and not dispatcheable requiring gas as backup, so not co2 free ( not to mention all that steel and concrete and rare earths and lubricants)

That you persist on comparing wind to nuclear is the height of hilarity, talk about grapes and watermelons

Btw that’s Scotland a country with a long history of offshore construction and experience, we in meantime have zero working offshore farms and no experience

Blue Energy and GE Vernova Unveil 2.5 GW Gas-Plus-Nuclear Plant https://share.google/hHzyEoCb4zREADwna

Not sure is this good or bad ..

if you squint really really hard you might see the overall percentage of wind and solar in China

they managed to quite effectively utilise social media to paint themselves as green, when they are anything but here in the real world

they added more coal last year alone than India in a decade

78GW of coal in 2025 alone!!!

with another 291GW under construction

China’s 1,052 GW solar and wind fleet, the largest on earth contributes 3.3% of China’s total energy supply. Coal contributes 58%.

you mixing up the electric grid vs total Chinese energy consumption which is what the graph shows

One can’t make concrete for example with electricity

Eitherway wind and solar remains a tiny fraction of both their grid and their total energy use which is still held up by coal of which they are building gobs off

But silly westerners fall for their tick tock greenwashing propaganda and don’t engage their brains and look at the real figures

I would not say challenging.

More questioning the sincerity of someone who is supposedly not anti nuclear but whose posts show the virulence of their opposition while refusing repeatedly to give as much as a single figure for their alternative.

Do you not know, or do you know but realise that to do so would be laughably inane ?