Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "DEEP DIVE ON TIM WALZ POLICIES | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

  1. ENGINEER HERE: TO EVERYONE. The reason some of us engineers are pointing out nuclear needs to be on the table and discussed is the simple fact that to get to 100% renewables causes a couple of problems to how energy grids need to operate. You might have already heard of "grid stability" and there are 2 parts to that issue. 1) You have to be able to SUPPLY ENGOUGH energy into the grid to cater for the demands. This is the more common issue people have heard about. Wind & Solar systems need ENERGY STORAGE to cater for this issue. This can be done with things like batteries, but they have limits, pumped hydro which requires suitable geography and hydrogen which so far has not been widely used. Hydrogen is one of my picks but there's too many voices on that subject confusing everyone which is extremely annoying. There are some other technologies under development but those are the 3 most often discussed. 2) FREQUENCY STABILITY - this is rarely discussed but the YT Channel "Real Engineering" does a great job of explaining it in a video titled "The Problem with Wind Energy." He explains plans in Ireland to handle this with a giant fly wheel, which might work and would be fantastic if it does. Another way to deal with this is a very large power station with a very large turbine and nuclear plants are large and have huge steam turbines driving the generator. From an ENGINEERING perspective a large nuclear plant makes a lot of sense in handling BOTH issues with GRID STABILITY. YES it can be done with Hydro (pumped and normal) and Hydrogen Turbines but both Batteries and Hydrogen Fuel Cells are good for supply but cause frequency instabilities in a large energy grids because of how the inverters they need work AND YES I do know how inverters convert DC power into AC power. If you ask why this isn't being mentioned by the pro-nuclear people. The only answer I have is that they are as stupid as stupid can be. Nuclear isn't their issue anything that's NOT wind and NOT solar is their issue. To put it mildly the pro-nuclear people are often the worst enemies of nuclear power because of how stupid they behave.
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