Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Why Has Biden Turned Its Back on Europe?" video.
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@kate8160 Yes, but not quickly enough. It takes hours for a nuclear or coal power plants to change their output. That is why they are used for base load and are the LAST power plants asked to alter their output, when something big happens. To illustrate, a while back Dukovany nuclear powerplant in Czechia had to intervene in the grid, because Austria didn't have wind, Hungary had their powerplants under maintenance and there was an accident in Slovenia, which destroyed their interconnect to Austria. It took inability of two NATIONS to have a nuclear powerplant ramp up production and stave off nation wide blackout! A gas powerplant can ramp up it's production or wind it down in as little as fifteen minutes, which is much better for grid regulation, given you need to maintain certain amount of power in the grid in every second! It is much easier to anticipate within acceptable margain of error, what consumption will be in an ever changing consumption model fifteen minutes ahead of time than eight hours ahead of time!
That is why we need to get rid wind, where winds are not consistent, and solar completely and replace it with gas and nuclear. Because when placing in wind and solar, you're displacing coal and nuclear and increasing the need for natural or oil gas, because wind and solar are intermittent and worse, in case of solar selectively intermittent, because it only produces during the day, but most consumption comes in the evening as families come home and consumption spikes! (businesses that are high energy consumers usually work around the clock, so they don't produce a corresponding dip). And you need to cover that spike irrespective of other factors. When there is not enough wind, you need to provide power from gas. Hell, during the day, when there is not enough sun, you need to provide power from gas, because you can't have blackouts!
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