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And if a fraction of the funding that was dumped on frivolous "renewables" in the last 20 years (Solara? Ha - tip of the iceberg for waste!) was instead spent
by EricE 5y ago
And if a fraction of the funding that was dumped on frivolous "renewables" in the last 20 years (Solara? Ha - tip of the iceberg for waste!) was instead spent on new reactor designs we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Which is probably why nuclear continues to be demonized. Follow the money...
- adamsmith143 5y agoThe last plant built in the US was the Watts Bar Unit 2, estimated cost around 6.1B USD for ~1.1 GW of output and construction took over 40 years. Average cost for Solar is something like 2-3$/watt. Follow the money indeed.
- ncmncm 5y agoSolara failed purely because cost for the competition dropped well below theirs. It was an honest business failure, like many others; and ultimately good news for the rest of us. They burned through $1/2 billion. Nukes always burn much more; US subsidies are more, every year, for equal value in the end. Harping on Solara only calls attention to nukes' overwhelmingly worse performance. Nukes are "demonized" because they cost overwhelming more than alternatives.