DURRRRR, Wind and Solar!! A Lib with Zero Knowledge of how a power grid works!

Sure, maybe on Mercury during the day cycle for solar and Venus for wind.

Subsidized renewables have distorted the electricity grid.

Wind and solar power do not provide the same value to the grid as conventional electricity sources. In addition to not operating on-demand, they provide little of the capacity value that is needed to maintain long-term reliability and cannot be relied on to provide the essential reliability services the grid needs to maintain reliability. Instead, they rely on other electricity generators to provide the services they cannot, thus “imposing” those costs on other generators and the grid. Though the wind and solar facilities do not pay these costs, ratepayers do.

A Texas heat wave in August 2019 provides a good example of how renewables can distort electricity grid operations. In the prior ten years, wind capacity had grown from 10% to 26% of capacity in the Texas power market (ERCOT).[x] The low marginal cost of subsidized wind power depressed market prices for electricity to the point where over 5,000 MW of conventional generation chose to retire in 2018 rather than continue losing money. With electricity demand reaching record levels, these retirements combined with an unpredicted drop in wind generation to force ERCOT to enact emergency procedures to avoid blackouts. Although blackouts were avoided, electricity prices that were under $20 per MWh in the morning of August 13, 2019 rose to $9,000 per MWh in the afternoon!

Solar/Wind/Fossil Companies do not want the actual solution!!! That is new generation nuclear. New Plants 1/10th the size of old nuclear plants, 1/3 the power and inherently safe. These plants could also be used to run desalination plants to provide water from the oceans for places having difficulty providing water such as California. You would just need one miniscule spot in a desert that has already been planned for this for 1,000s of years of base power. Just actually would need gas for peak power. Solar and wind would then be absolutely worthless to the grid. Save fossil fuel for other uses. No more subsidies for wind and solar and they then would just go away unless they can provide a reliable base or peak power in the future.

What are your thoughts on the Small Modular Reactors?

The safety systems are passive, Here is the comparison, Did not copy well so basically the good is SMR, and the bad is current systems, so my opinion is that fossil, wind, solar are against this, It is actually the best system. If scaled up the parts can be massed produced. Current‐generation safety‐related systems SMR safety systems
High‐pressure injection system.
Low‐pressure injection system. No active safety injection system required. Core cooling is maintained using passive systems.
Emergency sump and associated net positive suction head (NPSH) requirements for safety‐related pumps. No safety‐related pumps for accident mitigation; therefore, no need for sumps and protection of their suction supply.
Emergency diesel generators. Passive design does not require emergency alternating‐current (AC) power to maintain core cooling. Core heat removed by heat transfer through vessel.
Active containment heat systems. None required because of passive heat rejection out of containment.
Containment spray system. Spray systems are not required to reduce steam pressure or to remove radioiodine from containment.
Emergency core cooling system (ECCS) initiation, instrumentation and control (I&C) systems. Complex systems require significant amount of online testing that contributes to plant unreliability and challenges of safety systems with inadvertent initiations. Simpler and/or passive safety systems require less testing and are not as prone to inadvertent initiation.
Emergency feedwater system, condensate storage tanks, and associated emergency cooling water supplies. Ability to remove core heat without an emergency feedwater system is a significant safety enhancement.

Mass production of them would drop the price like what happened with The VCR back a few years. They would be expensive at first, then the price per KWh would drop significantly. I would love to see these powering apartment complexes with the heat produced from them to be used for domestic hot water as well as a potential central heating source. It would also open up a new field in the trades as well.

Alec is more believable than Wind and Solar value to a power grid!!! LOL