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If you financially modeled the deployment of each: set aside the tech aspects of solar and nuclear, and just take empirical data points and cost trends from pas
by dv_dt 8y ago
If you financially modeled the deployment of each: set aside the tech aspects of solar and nuclear, and just take empirical data points and cost trends from past solar and nuclear projects, modeling how the finances of each come together as well as the pool of parties willing/able to finance projects, I think you'd find the pure financial/project bandwidth available is several orders magnitude higher for renewable than Nuclear.
- tim333 8y agoCertainly the trend has not been promising for nuclear: >Nuclear’s share of global electricity production has fallen from 16.5 per cent 20 years ago to barely 10 per cent today. (FT)