Arnaud Kodeck <[email protected]> wrote: ** ** ** > > German decided to shutdown nuclear power plant well before ****Fukushima** > ** disaster. >
True. I think Fukushima confirmed the wisdom of that decision. The Germans are phasing it out slowly whereas the Japanese turned off all their reactors overnight, which seems like a dumb idea to me. One of the reasons they gave for turning them off was that they need to build new, higher breakwaters to avoid the risk of another tsunami. They said that would take several years. I think it was 2 or 3 years. I thought to myself, "if they were serious they could have breakwaters installed in six months." Think of how long it took the U.S. to put huge concrete blocks in Baghdad streets during the occupation. > With all those PV cells all around **Germany** and **Benelux** houses > just make sunny Sunday the nightmare of electricity grid managers. In those > hot and sunny Sunday, there is a lot of electricity available, but no one > to buy it. > The graph shows that even on a Sunday there is some baseline generation. I suppose they have to have some, in order to compensate for fluctuations in demand and in sunlight. Still, too much PV electricity is a problem I would like to have! I'll bet the Chinese and Japanese wish they had that problem. - Jed
