Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Countries are vowing more nuclear energy. But can they afford it? | Transforming Business" video.

Thanks for covering this topic. I tried to convey this problem of costs of nuclear energy to people on the internet especially since it's seen as the wonder to beat climate change not seeing the real costs and disadvantages involved especially if compared to modern green technology.
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@Nanaucat This is not quite correct. Nuclear energy has to run 24/7. Starting and stopping nuclear power plants or even changing the reaction rate has detrimental effects on the efficiency making nuclear even more expensive than it already is. So if the demand is dropping at the night the price of nuclear energy goes even up. Either because it is just wasted or because inefficiencies by changing reaction rates creating overhead costs. In a way nuclear power has the oppossit problem as solar and wind. It runs all the time, but it is not always needed while green power not runs always but sometimes too much. Both need energy storage technolgies. Solar at least has the benefit that it produces the most energy when the most energy is needed ... during the day.
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It's not used for cars. It's used for storage of nuclear waste in special containers which are parked right there. These containers usually last 10 years before you need to store them long-term or put them into another container.
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@xenoneuronics6765 And nuclear is not subsidized? Apparently you not watched this video here.
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Corporations pushing nuclear to prevent the decentralization of the power-market - I think nuclear energy is pushed so hard right now because it is the last chance of energy corporations to prevent the de-centralization and the democratization of power-generation which comes with solar- and wind-energy. The companies simply want to keep the monopoly on the energy-market and want to remain the only power-providers. But since there are no large-throughput emission free technologies besides fusion and fission and fusion is not ready I think companies pushing nuclear currently so hard to prevent them losing control to a market in which every family-home, every company is making it's own power and feeding surplus into a grid to much lower costs. And with that reducing demand and increasing supply at the same time. A nightmare for every energy company.
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@zbynekII Resources to build/fuel are not the point the costs of initial investment and running costs and that in relation to the generated energy. What do you try here distorting the view by comparing apples with oranges?
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Germany is not using natural gas in gas power plants (very little) it's mainly used still in private homes for heating (not cooking this was replaced against electric mostly) but more importantly the industry is getting blue hydrogen out of natural gas for manufacturing and chemical processing. It's a temporary solution until homes are transitioned and hydrogen can be bought as green hydrogen or made as green hydrogen in Germany, e.g. during times of energy-overproduction by renewables.
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@pseudosoda9608 Hydrogen produced by renewable energy is called green hydrogen. And produced by natural gas is called blue hydrogen. And yes there is: It's called electrolyse. Unfortunatly it's very wasteful but if the energy is not needed anyway why not use it to make hydrogen.
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