Comment Re:Nuclear? (Score 1) 308
Not a lot of storage is necessary as long as electricity is never priced below market equilibrium
Those of us who have to run our air-conditioners 24/7 seven+ months of the year disagree. A lot of storage is necessary, or a lot of the energy producers have to be baseload. For which read "nuclear"....
Too bad nuclear power plants want cooling too - and have to be shut down when their cooling water supply either dries out or becomes to warm. And it takes weeks to get them running again, even when the cooling returns the next day. And coincidently those shut downs are happening more and more often, you know, because AGW.