Comments by "Mosern1977" (@Mosern1977) on "You won’t believe what Denmark is doing here!" video.

If you have nuclear, you don't need wind and solar. Just make nuclear cheaper.
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Sounds super duper expensive. Energy is not hard to produce. What is hard is to produce stable, reliable energy cheaply.
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@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 - Denmark is a small country, so the instability can be absorbed by the countries around. However, it doesn't scale. And wind also has a very bad business case. When there is a lot of wind, there will be too much power generated, and the price will therefore be very low (might even be negative). So you don't earn money selling the power. When wind doesn't blow, the price will be high, but you will have nothing to sell. The only good thing about wind-power is that it can be used to convert government subsidies into private money in a tax haven. For that it is great.
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@Vabis_DK. - and how much power are we talking about it producing at that point?
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@Tim05Sweden - problem is, wind and solar doesn't produce power when there is no wind or sun. Meaning you'll get too much electricity when the sun is out and the wind blows, and on a wind-less night you get nothing. Its useless for running a modern society.
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@mann3dduck640 - if anything wind is causing major issues in our electrical grid, as it is chaotic and not easy to plan for - making for expensive upgrades of the grid being required. Nuclear power is at least 70 years old by now. Its not a new technology. In any case, a modern society needs power 24/7/365 - and neither solar nor wind can provide that.
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So the wind producers make no money when the wind blows? And when the wind doesn't blow, they also make no money? Wow - what a business model.
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So the unreliable wind energy of Denmark is reliant on Hydro, Nuclear and Gas/Coal power from neighboring countries? Doesn't sound like something that can scale very much.
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