The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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Most of the electrical overhead equipment and transmission lines are a antiquated hybrid mess.
I used to be involved in the project maintenance of this equipment and there were never enough resources to fix it properly and we were always bandaiding solutions. It's needs a rebuild to service a nuclear grid and the only way that will happen is with overseas private investment with people like Cannon Brookes and the Chinese stumping up the money and building the reactors.

Very true, and this argument is universal, whether your power comes from large Solar PV farms with commercial grade 24x7 battery storage, coal, gas, wind or nuclear.

Extremists claim micro-grids are the solution, but they are still grids that somebody has to own, operate and maintain.