On 10/08/2019 16:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 10/08/2019 15:57, Pancho wrote:
On 10/08/2019 13:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Anyway, why do you think only having Nuclear power is relevant to
the problem last night.

Absdolutely if we had been all nuclear that would not have happened.

It was the lack of renewable generators to respond in the same way
that thermal plant can, to a sudden loss of generating power.


Weren't the French thinking that they should limit the total
proportion of nuclear power as they wanted a higher percentage of
total generation from sources that could switch on quickly, to load
balance.

I wasn't entirely convinced.

The 'best of all worlds' power is about 30% hydro 70% nuclear. 0%
renewable.

France is close to that.




Hydro *is* renewable. So is nuclear if the fuel is reprocessed and
used again.