The Shidao Bay plant in eastern Shandong province is powered by two high-temperature reactors cooled by gas rather than pressurised water, according to state news agency Xinhua
Think of how many renewables they could have made for all the monies wasted on this.
Industry needs high density power. Which renewables cannot provide.
Houses: renewables
Businesses: renewables
Industrial and (some) data centers: nuclear
Otherwise it’s going to be: renewables and coal or gas. Those last two are terrible so go nuclear!
A nice summary: https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-iron-law-of-power-density-part
If I am not mistaken this is the ‘pebble bed’ reactor. Nice to see it finally make it out of testing phase.
article says they’re SMRs which i don’t know another example of them ever being deployed commercially. this is also pretty neat
Infinite money does not lead to infinite scale in zero time. China’s nuclear industry is robust and growing, as is their solar and wind industry. Money can’t be wasted if you’re already tapped out on growth in other avenues.
This year, China deployed more solar panels than the entirety of all solar panels in the US.
For the solar panels - was it reported by an independent organization or reported by China?
I am afraid it’s the same fake metric as with the electric scooters earlier. China subsidized them, so companies vastly overproduced dinky scooters to milk subsidies, inflate their numbers and inflate connected sharing businesses with a huge fleets. Those now sit in huge piles of electrowaste, which predictably explode in a beautiful toxic lithium fires 🔥.
Same happened earlier with cheap electric bikes and motorbikes.
Same happened earlier with cheap electric cars.
And we are talking here only about mountains of overproduction that cannot be hidden. God knows how much of the number was inflated along the chain of reporting, as is customary in China.