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Enverus RatedPower is the company blog at ratedpower.com, writing about business. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- /blog/rare-metals-photovoltaic/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-31
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To expand on that a little: "Unlike the wind power and EV sectors, the solar PV industry isn’t reliant on rare earth materials. Instead, solar cells use a range of minor metals including silicon, indium, gallium, selenium, cadmium, and tellurium." https://ratedpower.com/blog/rare-metals-photovoltaic/
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on “All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected”Here's a nice chart for the US [1]. You are correct that because of colder climates European power demand tends to peak more in winter. I can't find a similar chart to this (ideally broken down by country) but I did find this [2] > Even though it may seem counterintuitive due to their climate, Nordic countries are remarkably well-suited for PV installations. Solar irradiation levels during the long summer days, when…
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on “Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer solstice midday peak”zerocalories asks, 'Why bother? This is like paying off a debt with low interest early. A poor financial decision.' this presupposes that the energy mix is changing because of costly government subsidies, and if that presupposition were correct, it would be a very reasonable comment but that's not what's happening. countries aren't hitting their targets because the local government subsidies are more successful than…
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on “EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030”> France talks about building more nuclear, but what's actually getting put on the grid is renewables, not nuclear. As always this is a political problem, not a technical or economic one. The Hollande government put a law on the books that made it illegal to increase nuclear generating capacity beyond the then-installed 63.2 GW The only way they were even allowed to build/operate the single EPR in Flamanville was to…
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on “Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants”There's a helpful chart here, which happens to match your approximate latitude: https://ratedpower.com/blog/solar-panel-orientation/
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on “3.4M Solar Panels”> Perhaps they're going to use those instead of all the rare earth complexity that is photovoltaics. Photovoltaics (aka Solar panels) do not use a lot of rare earth materials. From one of the links below: > Unlike the wind power and EV sectors, the solar PV industry isn’t reliant on rare earth materials. Instead, solar cells use a range of minor metals including silicon, indium, gallium, selenium, cadmium, and tellu…
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on “$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa”Cost overruns are a great argument even if you ignore the massive time overruns, which you can't. All those cost overruns factor into the electricty price forever. Flamanville has a 60 year lifespan for this reason and even then has an estimated cost of €138/MWh [1]. Compare that to Cestas at €108/MWh [2]. Go further south and Spain has recently been paying €25/MWh [3]. [1]: https://www.powermag.com/flamanville-3-eu…
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on “Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks”
