Post #2403407
2026-04-14 09:12 UTC
@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com I think the term you’re after is “dispatchable power”, which means production that can rapidly be ramped up or down - eg. Renewables firmed with batteries, or some types of fast response gas turbine. “Base load” is a vestige of the old coal power stations, which need to output approximately constant power, so we had to find ways of flattening consumption, eg by incentivising night time consumption.
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@Sweetshark@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-14 10:00
@wall0159@aus.social However, the assumption that nuclear power is dispatchable is a myth: once you payed all the sunk cost to build a nuclear plant, it has to run 24/7 for a very long life if it ever wants to have remotely competitive prices per output. @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com