Jack Yetiv

Wind Power Grows by 33% in First Half

Re Jerrydd comments:

Keep in mind that the cost of building a solar panel has dropped almost 50% in the past decade, and the leading manufacturers are talking about a further decrease of approx. 50% in the next 5 years. as carbon-derived electricity becomes more expensive due to the fact that the cost of the released carbon begins to be passed on to the ratepayers, it will become to everyone that true grid parity has been reached in many parts of the US.

The above will remove ANY cost benefits that may be perceived today in favor of nuclear.

Please also note that within 5-10 years, concentrating PV arrays are likely to be generating a fair bit of baseload power because such plants will have a moderate capacity to store power, at least overnight if not for longer.

Since it takes around 10 years to actually get a nuke planmt built, by the time today's "planned" nuclear plants are actually built, they will be recognized to be largely obsolete, from a cost perspective.

Jack Yetiv