keithfeather

Seven New Developments in Renewable Energy

BTW a clip from the Nuclear Enegy Institute website. These folks do this for a living. If it didn't make good business sense to operate them, they wouldn't have restarted them.

"Nuclear power is the lowest cost producer of baseload electricity. Average nuclear production costs have declined more than 30 percent in the last 10 years, to an average of 1.7 cents per kilowatt-hour. This includes the costs of operating and maintaining the plant, purchasing nuclear fuel, and paying for the management of used fuel. Electricity generated from nuclear power also has tremendous forward price stability because only a small part of production costs are fuel costs. Fuel accounts for 80 percent to 90 percent of the cost of electricity produced by fossil fuel-fired generation, making electricity from fossil plants highly susceptible to fluctuations in coal and gas prices."

Seven New Developments in Renewable Energy

First, construction costs are in $ per KW, not KWH. and your wind numbers I presume are max raw power in ideal conditions. Second, if one were to presume that your numbers are correct, then FPL would not be building nuclear, but would be building wind. Third, if your numbers were correct, the wind would not need any subsidy. Finally, nuclear is base load value, whereas wind is opportunity energy. different consumer values.

I applaud your enthusiasm, but for your vision to be correct flies in the face of reality world wide. Nuclear is what sustainable nations use for electrical production.

Seven New Developments in Renewable Energy

"Building new wind power is still less than a third the cost of building new nuclear plants"

Yippee! So the electricity from a wind farm is less than 1 cent per KWH. Why bother metering it?

Fat chance, bucko.