Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants

[edwest4]

Biden launches $6B effort to save distressed nuclear plants

Owners or operators of nuclear power reactors that are expected to shut down for economic reasons can apply for funding to avoid closing prematurely.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[isayyo2]

A good start

 

[edwest4]

The biggest threat to nuclear power is the commercialization of high-density, and high charge-discharge cycle storage batteries. I predict nuclear will disappear.

 

[Archibald]

Can he loan a couple of these billions to France ? our 58 reactors are going down the drain those days, starting with the larger ones (1.4 GW).

 

[Orionblamblam]

The biggest threat to nuclear power is the commercialization of high-density, and high charge-discharge cycle storage batteries.

To be devolped right about the same time as commercial fusion.

 

[Dilandu]

The biggest threat to nuclear power is the commercialization of high-density, and high charge-discharge cycle storage batteries. I predict nuclear will disappear.

How exactly? Batteries store energy; they did not produce it by themselves.

 

[martinbayer]

The biggest threat to nuclear power is the commercialization of high-density, and high charge-discharge cycle storage batteries. I predict nuclear will disappear.

How exactly? Batteries store energy; they did not produce it by themselves.

Reminds me a bit of an old German joke: "We don't need nuclear power - our electric current comes from the wall outlet."

 

[edwest4]

Zinc: A link from battery history to energy storage's future

From data centres to long-duration storage for the grid, zinc looks increasingly likely to play a part in the energy transition, writes Dr Josef Daniel-Ivad from the the Zinc Battery Initiative.

www.energy-storage.news

 

[Lc89]

Regulations and bureaucracy are the worst obstacle, ergo, throwing money left and right does not solve the problems. Never.

 

[Orionblamblam]

The biggest threat to nuclear power is the commercialization of high-density, and high charge-discharge cycle storage batteries. I predict nuclear will disappear.

How exactly?

I guess the approved answer now is "magic."

 

[Arjen]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C Clarke

 

[Orionblamblam]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C Clarke

Especially when descriptions of how it works are censored.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Well, they want money, not questions or doubt.

 

[edwest4]

Solar Energy Corporation of India launches 'first-of-its-kind' 1,000MWh battery storage tender

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a 500MW/1,000MWh pilot tender for large-scale standalone battery storage.

www.energy-storage.news

 

[publiusr]

Plenty of warheads to go into those reactors...if leaders would relax their iron grip.