There is a lot of guff spoken about renewables - the biggest piece of guff about them being that they are cheaper than gas. This is a provable untruth, but it is still repeated with the same enthusia… (View Post)

As I understand it, capacity payments are paid to gas and other reliable generators to provide power where there is no generation from intermittent renewables. Since they would not be necessary witho… (View Post)

They're not facts dear. They're the shite that you get when you ask an LLM questions and don't bother yourself to query the results. It hasn't even given you numbers! The facts ar… (View Post)

Yes, though their nuclear power stations have their own issues by all accounts. I am also not filled with confidence about the Chinese building us a nuclear power station, I mean, um, really? When ev… (View Post)

Perhaps that's because they're not thick enough to stop exploiting their own hydrocarbons, therefore they have plenty of money to make the switch. (View Post)