French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse
Why don&#x27;t we (Europeans) use nuclear power in the winter and solar in the summer?
It seems to make perfect sense but I haven&#x27;t read any plans like this.<p>Reactors need regular lengthy maintenance and are easy to cool in the winter, while solar panels are cheap and can be placed everywhere but are almost useless during wintertime.
Reactors could even provide heating in the winter while ACs are the perfect consumers of solar energy when the sun is the strongest.<p>Storing enough heat&#x2F;electricity for the entire winter on the other hand seems completely futile; there is no technology that can be scaled up enough without sounding like it came straight from Perry Rhodan.