cyberclark

How Carbon Caps Will Affect Utilities Sector

Thanks for a good read! This is the time and place to take nuclear power more seriously!

Coal power comes in at 2.80 MWh and leaves behind a legacy of fly ash heavily contaminated with heavy metals and serious salts of various kinds.

Wind generation runs about 6.00 per MWh and leaves a legacy of noise and distributed signal.

Hydro generation runs about 2.00 per MWh and leaves behind a changed waterway and the implications.

Nuclear power comes in at about the same price as coal generation and can be built in 2000 MW units using either external or enclosed cooling systems. This leaves a legacy of a waste product that can be totally controlled and contained and is about the size of your desk after a years operation.

Green isn't necessarily wind and water.