skells @skells@qoto.org

@dave @11112011 @skells

This is a good point.

The base load, geothermal, keeps everything going overnight, where stuff that stays on all night is the base load.

Then in the morning, they let water out of the top dams, which generates breakfast rush power.

The water runs down the river where a dam generates the lunchtime rush. Then later the dinner peak.

The dams store and don't generate if wind and solar are generating.

Gas generate for peaks responsive to sudden demand in Auckland.

@dave @11112011 @skells

Can confirm, we get negative spot prices sometimes. In Australia they have negative spot prices during the daily solar panel peak.

In New Zealand we use geothermal, rather than nuclear for the base load electricity.

Our geothermal plants produce about 20% of our electricity.

You could build geothermal plants in most countries that have hot springs or volcanoes.

@dave nah man it's a weird $200 cum tribute

FYI, depleted uranium is just uranium with most of the U-235 spent. That would be much easier to acquire/create than the enriched uranium that most reactors use.

But the only current certified design (from NuScale) uses normal enriched uranium anyways.