On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:46 PM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Never saw a nuke that came in on schedule and under budget. But 80 years >> of close to 2 GW will charge lots of EVs. >> > > True. But for the same amount of money we could have bought ~11 GW of > solar panels, which would have charged a lot more EVs. See: > > > https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-150-vf.pdf > > The power companies are putting their money on solar and wind, because > they are now cheaper than anything else. See: > > those costs don't include energy storage. harry > https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50818 > > Nuclear power is obsolete. It is too expensive. It may get cheaper, but > other sources will get even cheaper, even faster. Once a technology falls > behind it seldom catches up again. A totally different approach, such as > pebble bed reactors, might be competitive. > >
