Go back to your capacity charts. Wind and solar work but you need to generate some electricity when it is night and the wind isn’t blowing. Thus despite all of the new solar and wind capability coal capacity remains relatively stable. Nuclear is too expensive to compete with coal part time. Besides that solar and wind suck up all of the subsidy dollars. Try thinking not channeling algore.

Sure, I can explain it to you in my best layman's terms. The power you get to your house is kept within certain parameters. Baseload power plants, i.e. coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, can maintain these parameters through gearing and throttling of the generator turbine. Explained in this video:



Testing this process is what led to Chernobyl blowing up. Anyways, Solar and wind are additional power sources, when they are available(wind blowing, sun shining)They can be added to the grid for excess power. However, this constant flux of power capacity creates price instability in the market. With the expense of Nuclear, these plants can not survive in a market of fluctuating prices. Only cheap coal/gas can be used for baseload in a solar/wind market.

Also, Bill Gates reactor, runs the turbine on the Brayton cycle, whereas, coal, gas, current nuclear are on the Rankine cycle. Brayton being ~60% efficiency vs Rankine's ~45%.

I appreciate the effort, but your argument still doesn't make sense. Markets including energy fluctuate all the time. Products' reliability and consistency are always part of pricing. Markets do a lousy job of accounting for negative economic externalities and new and not so new technologies including energy depend/benefit from government subsidies/support. You make a good case for the potential of nuclear, but don't seem to want to acknowledge its challenges while being anxious to do so for other clean technologies.

Solar and wind are scams, if it were simply free market, we would only have coal and gas. The engineering world is telling you, if you want clean energy you need the government to run almost all nuclear, with some hydro where locations permit, in a not free market. The challenges of nuclear are nothing compared to the scam of wind and solar.

There obviously is nothing I can say that will convince you that the left is running a green energy scam. However, we in the first world, exported our emissions to third world countries, we then promised billions to clean up our mess, but the money never arrived. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/w...l-warming.html
Instead it was funneled into the bank accounts of left wing venture capitalist firms, and to people who own them like Al Gore. The left then blames Trump, and the right for everything they did.

Complete double standard from an engineer's perspective. If only the world was that simple.

Stop projecting. The Republicans have all the levers of power. Make nuclear happen if the Dems were the problem.

That’s what their party does, insult those who have other opinions.

I have some carbon credits I’ll sell you if you’re that concerned.

This about sums it up.

Well said!