Icon on the money on this one.
Nuclear is an answer in some.countries.
But the current situation with obsolete plants on the ring of fire and corrupt practices and anti nuclear public make it a no go from multiple perspectives. We need to work on moving to gas, renewables and controllng demand right now.
Unfortunately if you look at Taiwan’s energy usage situation one will realise it has not changed its spots.
It keeps increasing year on year due to industrial demand .
The new TSMC plant for 3nm chips planned for Kaohsiing will use power equivalent to a whole city!
This is because they need to use some kind of extremely expensive EUV lasers to etch these new generation chips st the edge of quantum tunneling (5 in one plant at 110 million USD each ) and the conversion efficency of electrical energy to photons is extremely poor.
Its a fascinating subject but also quite worrying.
EVERYBODY needs to read this article!
Taiwan is an unusual country because in the case of the majority of countries residential demand accounts for most electricity use. But in Taiwan industrial demand is the majority and still increasing (in the West industrial energy demand generally decreases year on year…they feel good good But they are just transferring the energy demand to somewhere else ).
For people in Taipei this air pollution is striking but for south and central it is a common winter occurrence (I know because I have lived in both it’s like living in different countries ).