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Can you elaborate in what way it is a fantasy?
by read_if_gay_ 7y ago
Can you elaborate in what way it is a fantasy?
- baq 7y agoIt’s actually very expensive.
- ben_w 7y agoUSA electricity demand was 12071 kWh/person over 2016. Multiply by $0.1/kWh (cost of nuclear power given elsewhere in replies to this submission) means Americans would have spent $1207 on electricity, per person not per household, for that year.
- pjc50 7y agoIt's expensive to build and maintain to the required level of safety? Even if, somehow, you had a perfectly safe magic hot rock that could put out a gigawatt, all the plumbing and turbine machinery would still have a minimum cost level that would be cheap but still metered. Maybe something like half the cost of natural gas.
- cygx 7y agoBecause nuclear is more expensive than on-shore wind and solar (as well as natural gas, for that matter). The problem with renewables today is not cost, but concerns about variability of the output.