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Homework assignment: compare the cost of electricity (per kWh) from a bank of Tesla batteries and solar panels to a conventional coal, natural gas, nuclear, or hydroelectric plant.
The nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 put a fork in that idea....
There are new nuclear reactor designs that are much safer. NuScale Power has recently submitted a new design to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: NuScale Power - SMR Nuclear Technology
As much as I'd like to rely on wind and solar power, we don't (yet) have batteries that are cheap enough to make wind and solar economical.
Homework assignment: compare the cost of electricity (per kWh) from a bank of Tesla batteries and solar panels to a conventional coal, natural gas, nuclear, or hydroelectric plant.
Do we need to factor in the cost to the taxpayers for military protection, accidents, pipeline land acquisitions, healthcare cost, yada yada? Fukushima? Maconda?
What do we do about the dumb chits who cannot figure out using solar when it is available and fossil fuel when the sun is not shining is better than fossil fuel all the time?
Do we need to factor in the cost to the taxpayers for military protection, accidents, pipeline land acquisitions, healthcare cost, yada yada? Fukushima? Maconda?
Please do.
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Originally Posted by crone
What do we do about the dumb chits who cannot figure out using solar when it is available and fossil fuel when the sun is not shining is better than fossil fuel all the time?
The dumb chits are smart enough to understand the following equation:
Cost of (fossil plant + solar plant) > Cost of (fossil plant)
The dumb chits are also smart enough to read the New York Times.
Paying 3 to 4x for electricity to achieve pitifully small reductions in CO2 is just stupid. Simply replacing coal plants with natural gas plants would probably be a far more economical way to reduce CO2 emissions. Natural gas emits roughly half the CO2 of coal, per kWh.
Paying 3 to 4x for electricity to achieve pitifully small reductions in CO2 is just stupid. Simply replacing coal plants with natural gas plants would probably be a far more economical way to reduce CO2 emissions. Natural gas emits roughly half the CO2 of coal, per kWh.
Do you intend for my land to be confiscated for pipelines?
Yeah it's so profitable, every time Obama tried to prop up one of these companies it went bankrupt within months.
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