Comments on: Heat shuts down French nuke plants: Who keeps lights on? http://www.greenbang.com/heat-shuts-down-french-nuke-plants-who-keeps-lights-on_10592.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Phelan http://www.greenbang.com/heat-shuts-down-french-nuke-plants-who-keeps-lights-on_10592.html/comment-page-1#comment-8255 Sean Phelan Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:30:54 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=10592#comment-8255 Thanks for an interesting article, but I'm completely confused by the link from "France slows down Nuclear plants; buys power from UK" to "UK datacentres need to plan for more power outages". Surely the logical conclusion is exactly the opposite: selling 1 GW to France, at peak times, means that the UK has at least 1 GW more generating capacity than current UK peak demand. That may not be the case in the future, but surely neither the France story nor an IT vendor's desire to sell backup power systems tell us anything at all about matching UK supply and demand in the long term?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8255','Sean Phelan'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8255','Sean Phelan','Thanks for an interesting article, but I\'m completely confused by the link from \"France slows down Nuclear plants; buys power from UK\" to \"UK datacentres need to plan for more power outages\". Surely the logical conclusion is exactly the opposite: selling 1 GW to France, at peak times, means that the UK has at least 1 GW more generating capacity than current UK peak demand. That may not be the case in the future, but surely neither the France story nor an IT vendor\'s desire to sell backup power systems tell us anything at all about matching UK supply and demand in the long term?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for an interesting article, but I’m completely confused by the link from “France slows down Nuclear plants; buys power from UK” to “UK datacentres need to plan for more power outages”. Surely the logical conclusion is exactly the opposite: selling 1 GW to France, at peak times, means that the UK has at least 1 GW more generating capacity than current UK peak demand. That may not be the case in the future, but surely neither the France story nor an IT vendor’s desire to sell backup power systems tell us anything at all about matching UK supply and demand in the long term?
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]]> By: Roger http://www.greenbang.com/heat-shuts-down-french-nuke-plants-who-keeps-lights-on_10592.html/comment-page-1#comment-8251 Roger Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:21:06 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=10592#comment-8251 Who would have thought of that? So perhaps nuclear power is not that good a solution as a stopgap between coal and renewable energies. If it relies on cool water to operate effectively, higher land temperatures may rule out nuclear power production altogether.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8251','Roger'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8251','Roger','Who would have thought of that? So perhaps nuclear power is not that good a solution as a stopgap between coal and renewable energies. If it relies on cool water to operate effectively, higher land temperatures may rule out nuclear power production altogether.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Who would have thought of that? So perhaps nuclear power is not that good a solution as a stopgap between coal and renewable energies. If it relies on cool water to operate effectively, higher land temperatures may rule out nuclear power production altogether.
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