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Slartibartfast wrote:Why not wind and solar? Right now our main problem is distribution, not production. Wind and solar have much smaller startup costs. Can be scaled/ upgraded accordingly to increase capacity. Can be installed all over so that we have have a decentralised supply and reduce the distribution problems that we have right now. Both wind and solar have been increasing in efficiency and going down in cost over the past couple decades. Why bother with nuclear?
vaiostation wrote:Chernobyl: T&T edition
PariaMan wrote:From the guardian yesterday
Energy Minister Franklin Khan has warned that the country will be paying for electricity it cannot use when it gets power from a world-scale renewable plant by 2021.
Speaking in the Parliament during the recently concluded budget debate, the minister said it is not economically viable to implement renewable energy in T&T at this time because we currently produce surplus power that we have to pay millions of dollars a month for.
He said the country is in this current predicament because the a proposed aluminium smelter was scrapped in 2010 when the Kamla Persad-Bissessar-led People’s Partnership Government was voted into office.
Khan said this was a perfect example of why continuation of policy is so important when it comes to governance.
“We were going to build an aluminium smelter, a new source of revenue for this country in foreign exchange the Chinese got the contract,” Khan said.
With the smelter expected to come on board, Khan said the government put certain things in place to prepare for its construction.
“We built the most modern electricity generation plant at La Brea the TGU (Trinidad Generation Unlimited) plant with a capacity of 730 megawatts,” Khan said.
When the People’s Partnership came into office and scrapped the smelter this caused the country to remain burdened with the surplus power, he said.
“When the UNC came into office in 2010 they scrapped it but we were saddled with 730 megawatts of power that we could not use and to make matters worse it was way down in La Brea and there was no sub station to transmit that power to the North which is the big user,” he said.
T&T still had to pay for the surplus energy though because of a take or pay contract.
“But when you have independent power producers there is something called a ‘take or pay contract’ because they would not put down a power plant without a contract to sell the power,” he said.
This bill amounted to millions of dollars, Khan said.
“When we took office in 2015 T&TEC was paying TGU $45 million a month for unused power,”
Khan said.
Khan said this bill was reduced be almost $20 million, he said.
“Thank God we hustled and finished the Gandhi Village substation so a lot of that power could now come to the North the bill has been reduced to approximately $25 million per month,” he said.
“What that means is the country has a generating capacity of 1,750 megawatts but it is only using 1,350 megawatts there is a 400 megawatt surplus that we have to pay for,” Khan said.
vaiostation wrote:Chernobyl: T&T edition
VexXx Dogg wrote:vaiostation wrote:Chernobyl: T&T edition
I shudder to think about it.
Corner cutting during design, build and operation.
Poor maintenance.
Shoddy or improper disposal of nuclear waste can F**K the entire country by contaminating our freshwater for generations
We don't have the geography to support it.
I prefer the renewable energy push
Monk BANzai wrote:VexXx Dogg wrote:vaiostation wrote:Chernobyl: T&T edition
I shudder to think about it.
Corner cutting during design, build and operation.
Poor maintenance.
Shoddy or improper disposal of nuclear waste can F**K the entire country by contaminating our freshwater for generations
We don't have the geography to support it.
I prefer the renewable energy push
nah... i think the Design and build would be world class.... re: TGU. The operation tho.... they should introduce AI operation.
Redman wrote:A)The possibility of melt down as you guys are worried about is zero
b)There are companies that would be able to Build and hand over.
In 2017, Trinidad and Tobago’s proven gas reserves were estimated at 300 bcm (10.6 tcf) and the country produced around 33.8 bcm (1.19 tcf) of gas.
Redman wrote:Nice article-wrong tech.
Again the MSR tech is inherently safe-the info is out there.
The MSR use up their fuel more than conventional reactors-so the volume of waste is reduced-80-90% and its radioactivityis lower since the process makes more efficient use.
What we need is to get past the pre conceived notions demonstrated above-
If as we say we running out of gas/oil then we will be in a position that we have no FUEL to generate elec.In 2017, Trinidad and Tobago’s proven gas reserves were estimated at 300 bcm (10.6 tcf) and the country produced around 33.8 bcm (1.19 tcf) of gas.
If we thinking about 50-100 years we need more.
What dwindling the reserves is Atlantic lng.Redman wrote:Well it eh want ....it more of a NEED
if it is our current usage means that NG is the bedrock that Business and Electricity Gen is built on...
And our current reserves are dwindling-we need a replacement.
What are the options?
Solar/Wind cant do the trick-and the jury is out wrt to cost,efficiency and surprisingly its actual all in impact on the environment.
If we accept that the pace of research and Dev in Solar/Wind means that we would likely solve those issues....how can we dismiss the fact that the same applies to Nuclear.
If what is published as fact regarding MSRs as a class.... we would have an abundant,safe,clean cost effective and LOCALLY supplied(possibly) source of fuel.
In in the next 2-5 decades-what could be more important?
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