Comments by "Neolithic Transit Revolution" (@neolithictransitrevolution427) on "Into Europe" channel.

Germany's phase out of Nuclear was one of the worst policy mistakes in history. Excluding nuclear produced hydrogen makes no sense, thats the ideal complement to renewables.
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@Micha-qv5uf it was hardly investing, it was simply maintaining existing facilities. Which were phases almost entirely to coal. Also, the idea of Russian Uranium dependance is a nothing burger, the country shares a boarder with France and has good relations with the US.
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@Micha-qv5uf mainly Niger currently? Although also Kazakhstan, which isn't Russia, Uzbekistan also not Russia, and Australia, which I don't believe to be Russia, have each provided roughly a quarter of total imports since 2000. France does trade Uranium with russia, sure, but only reprocessing spent fuel. If you want Russia to leave piles of nuclear waste lying around a soon to be failed state I guess it's your purgative. But overall France exports to Russia, and certainly isn't dependent
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Europe was avoiding long term gas contracts prior to the invasion, with the idea's that Russia had no alternative market and not wanting to be caught buying gas after renewables were built out.
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@neodym5809 combined with Hydrogen production it would have provided the exact peaking energy source needed for renewables. Moreover, renewables are rather terrible at producing process heat, which is a substantial portion of energy requirements.
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I'm a fan of it.
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@Micha-qv5uf Sure, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are in Africa and Australia was checks notes famously colonized by the French. But yes France treats its former colonises badly. That's hardly a reason to be against uranium. I wonder how much Natural gas going to Europe is coming from Algeria
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@Croz89 I think renewables have some great advantages. With good interconnections, wind is dirt cheap and very reliable. Solar almost always works on the days AC demand is particularly high. And tbh, the new closed loop deep geothermal technologoes might fix all the other renewables issues. But nuclear is great, particularly if we invested in it enough to have breeders and burners, and probably the best source of process heat. I'd also love to see some nuclear powered oil and cargo ships..
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@danielschwarze781 I meamt specifically in dealling with Russia, which has a larger impact on the market than Norway. But I removed the word actively from my original comment.
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Why was it a bad year for nuclear?
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@Croz89 most existing hydrogen production methods don't load follow very well and work best at steady state. At the same time, high temperature hydrolysis is much more efficient. Nuclear offers high temperatures and steady state energy inputs, renewables offers neither. So that would be my counter argument. Even if we get load following hydrolysis technologoes in the near future, that process heat will give nuclear a clear advantage.
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@Croz89 yes, matching supply with demand is certainly the biggest issue. Wasn't sure what blocking high pressure means, but yes you definitely need back up generation. Wind is generally has a higher capacity factor in the winter anyway. You should look at the numbers on the new closed loop geothermal projects they are very strong and decreasing
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