The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.

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UK has wind.

I’m taking east Europe for instance.

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FWIW, Baltic countries are going hard for solar, see https://lemmy.world/post/17098210

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Baltics powered by Finnish and Swedish nuclear.

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Well, that’s a bald-faced lie. Maybe if we were only talking about Lithuania, which does import big chunk of its energy budget from Sweden, but Estonia and Latvia generate most of their energy on their own - and according to the linked article, plan to generate even more in near future.

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Everyone is or at least tries to portray they are. Your article could be written for almost any country in the world.

But that doesn’t mean a country can be run on solar alone.

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Who is suggesting solar alone?

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No, the article definitely could not be written for any country in the world, because it lists concrete actions, numbers for past few years, and concrete plans for next few years.

But judging from your comments here and elsewhere in the thread, you do not care about discussion, and will move goalposts whenever it suits you. You are not a nice person. So, PLONK.

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Why does eastern Europe get less sunlight?

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It’s like 3 am there

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Less than Spain. There is a winter. Geography and suitable areas less common. Distribution network made for power plants.

Nuclear plants can be a better cost effective fit.

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