Thread: Nuclear power plants

Originally Posted by goingbush

Strange, my brother has a humungous house w a/c and hydronic heating and a huge solar pv array, it more than covers what he uses, recieving credits on his account even during winter, Dad has a smallish house with proportionally smaller array, neither he nor my brother has paid a power bill since installing.

Don't confuse cost with quantity. I know plenty who don't get a bill, because the power companies pay them twice the retail price per kWh produced, not because they produce more than they use. Timing matters with solar PV as well, as stated elsewhere here.

Solar Thermal though, that's a different story. A very good candidate for baseload alternate energy (but I'm all for nuclear myself as well)

Originally Posted by naviguesser

Put me down for Nuclear Power.
Simple answer is clean cheap power.
I would have it in back back yard.
Got a mostly dismantled oil refinery a couple of km away, I would have no problem with one getting built there.

How is O'Sullivan Beach going ? Thinking of buying there before they turn that into housing & the prices skyrocket !

Originally Posted by goingbush

How is O'Sullivan Beach going ? Thinking of buying there before they turn that into housing & the prices skyrocket !

That's where the new desal plant is, if you put the nuke plant next door any radioactive leaks can be pumped straight into Adelaide's reservoirs!

A plant around the Illawarra or southern highlands (my backyard) and put the waste down one of the old coal mines that we have been digging around here for 150 years.

Originally Posted by goingbush

How is O'Sullivan Beach going ? Thinking of buying there before they turn that into housing & the prices skyrocket !

I live in Crib Point in Vic.

The old BP refinery is not far away, the remains of that have been rusting away for years.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Strange, my brother has a humungous house w a/c and hydronic heating and a huge solar pv array, it more than covers what he uses, recieving credits on his account even during winter, Dad has a smallish house with proportionally smaller array, neither he nor my brother has paid a power bill since installing.

for some people it works, but you need to look at the whole population.

Originally Posted by bacicat

Won't work. Residential based solar systems are close to saturation now. The grid can't take much more of them, and the power from them goes nowhere when too many are installed in one area.

In laymens terms you need to increase the voltage to push power into the grid, but if you have too many systems doing this in one area then the voltage rises too high and the solar inverter will stop pushing power out.

This is the main reason the rebate was cut back so far - to limit installation numbers that the infrastructure can't handle. The supply authorities are already struggling with this issue in some areas.

what he said.

in my gf's dads place, him and people in the street keep blowing appliances cause they all have solar and at midday thats mains power is above 255volts
then at night the mains is dropping 215volts

There should be a poll for/against nuclear power - then we can make an executive decision!