Exnihiloest wrote:Janic wrote:nuclear also only existed thanks to public subsidies ...
You compare what is not comparable. At the time, telecommunications and television / radio broadcasting were state-owned.
And today, who really wants nuclear power to go private?
By nature nuclear was intended to be a state industrial sector obeying the strategy
K, that is to say to exist in the form of large-scale structures of the monopolistic type, centralized and endowed with a low power of evolution.
The wind sector obeyed a strictly opposite principle namely the strategy
r, that is to say developed by small companies with the aim of creating decentralized production units of small dimensions with strong competitive power.
In a rather paradoxical but fairly logical way we see that now wind turbines tend to become a tool in the hands of monopolies and that wind turbines tend to become larger and larger, we find our strategy
K... at the same time more and more private sector nuclear companies tend to develop small power plants with high adaptive power (strategy
r)
Reminder of evolutionary biology, here I made a comparison between biology and wind and nuclear industry:
Strategy r example mouse or wind turbine period 1980/2015
High fertility / many wind projects.
Low parental investment in the survival of each descendant / low initial financial investment.
Significant infant mortality / very many projects aborted.
Short life cycle / life of a wind turbine between 5/20 years
Rapid growth / Installation in a few weeks.
Early sexual maturity / rapid technological maturity.
Significant adult mortality / non-occurrence
Low competition capacity / uncompetitive in view of other energy sources
Large dispersal capacity / This is why the Germans made this choice!
Strategy k example elephant ... or nuclear period 1960/2020. Low fertility / limited number of projects
A strong parental investment in the survival of each descendant / strong state investment.
Lower infant mortality / project largely supported by the state so that it does not collapse.
Long life cycle / lifetime of a plant 40 / 60,80 (?) Years
Slow growth construction of a nuclear power plant 5 years.
Late sexual maturity / fairly long technological maturity.
Very strong ability to compete / Nuclear is very resistant to fossils.
High survival / Nuclear one day nuclear always!
Small dispersal capacity / difficulty selling nuclear power plants.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.