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Gov. Newsom admits renewable energy failure.

jonny5 said:
But they do use dry cooling. Less efficient, but seems like it could be used instead of wet cooling when needed.
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No they can't instead they are forced to shut down the plants.

"In France, where temperatures hit 40C (104F) in the Rhone Valley area, French utility EDF shut down the 1,335-MW Saint-Alban-1 unit, Bugey-2 and Bugey-3 (each 910 MW), and 920-MW Fessenheim-2 reactor, citing high temperatures in the Rhone and Rhine rivers. The closures sent power prices soaring in the country that relies on nuclear for 72.3% of its electricity production.

In Sweden, Vattenfall shut down the 900-MW Unit 2 at the four-unit Ringhals plant (Figure 2), as seawater temperatures exceeded 25C (77F), approaching maximum technical specifications on allowed cooling water temperature. “That the sea reaches so high temperature levels this year is very unusual, and that Swedish nuclear power plants need to reduce their output due to too warm sea water is something that only happens rarely. At Ringhals it has only happened at a few instances since the turn of the century,” the company said in a statement. Soaring temperatures also forced Vattenfall to reduce power at three boiling water reactors (BWRs) at its Forsmark plant."

Intense Summer Heatwaves Rattle World’s Power Plants
 
Bergslagstroll said:
No they can't instead they are forced to shut down the plants.

"In France, where temperatures hit 40C (104F) in the Rhone Valley area, French utility EDF shut down the 1,335-MW Saint-Alban-1 unit, Bugey-2 and Bugey-3 (each 910 MW), and 920-MW Fessenheim-2 reactor, citing high temperatures in the Rhone and Rhine rivers. The closures sent power prices soaring in the country that relies on nuclear for 72.3% of its electricity production.

In Sweden, Vattenfall shut down the 900-MW Unit 2 at the four-unit Ringhals plant (Figure 2), as seawater temperatures exceeded 25C (77F), approaching maximum technical specifications on allowed cooling water temperature. “That the sea reaches so high temperature levels this year is very unusual, and that Swedish nuclear power plants need to reduce their output due to too warm sea water is something that only happens rarely. At Ringhals it has only happened at a few instances since the turn of the century,” the company said in a statement. Soaring temperatures also forced Vattenfall to reduce power at three boiling water reactors (BWRs) at its Forsmark plant."

Intense Summer Heatwaves Rattle World’s Power Plants
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The COULD. They just dont.
 
Luther said:
Troll: A word used as a scapegoat when one is defeated(LOL)
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Troll: a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community

ie. "Where are the intelligent Trump supporters?"
 
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