this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
67 points (97.2% liked)

World News

31540 readers
450 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17595046

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No.

MW is the maximum capacity not the average.

A nuclear reactor runs at close to its maximum output pretty much 24/7/365.

A solar farm only operates during the day, and even then it only operates at maximum output in the middle of a clear sunny day.

The overall average output of a nuclear plant is typically around 90% of its capacity.

The overall average output of solar farm is 20-25%.

This massive farm will still only output a bit more electricity than what a single nuclear reactor outputs.

A nuclear power station typically has more than one reactor, so compared to a typical nuclear power station this isn’t even close to the average nuclear plant.

Though it does beat a few of the smallest nuclear plants that only have a single reactor.

Nuclear outputs a fuck-ton of electricity for its size.