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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 29 August | 75 comments (75 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

sigh - why is energy journalism so bad? (none / 1)

renewables represent 10% of power generation right now. To get to the point where it would be such a large part of the system that it would actually require shutting down nuclear plants completely on more than an exceptional basis is unlikely for a while (or if it happens, it will be because the grid has been substantially modified to make it possible) - or is the journalist expecting the nuclear plants to be shut before the coal plants? (that's the assumption of the report, actually, from what's quoted in the article)
even if, somehow, renewables lost their priority access to the grid (which would require a much more significant change in law than an extension of the life of the nuclear plants), there is no reason they would not still be dispatched: renewables have lower marginal costs than nuclear plants and will underbid them easily...
and when they discuss a report on anything, why don't they f*cking provide alink to the said report so that we can check for ourselves?

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 05:32:59 AM EST
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Re: sigh - why is energy journalism so bad? (none / 1)

Too much money, geopolitics and power at stake. You don't want the facts to get in the way of a good narrative, now do you?

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 06:09:27 AM EST
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Re: sigh - why is energy journalism so bad? (none / 0)

they say the report is by EWI, who are primarily a security advisory body who, despite their name (East-West Institute)seem very NATO focussed. They also seem to carry a lot of baggage for the nuclear industry.

So I imagine that somebody helpfully wrapped all this up to provide the most helpful pro-nuclear spin where, and I know you disagree with this, nuclear vs DFH-energy is a zero-sum game. So there will always be an element of punch-a-hippy about such things.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Aug 29th, 2010 at 06:09:54 AM EST
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