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For your renewable vs nuclear cost, is the cost advantage that obvious? When price is comparison is done, does it account for lifespan difference, a nuclear re
by anton96 4y ago
For your renewable vs nuclear cost, is the cost advantage that obvious?
When price is comparison is done, does it account for lifespan difference, a nuclear reactor last 60 year vs 20 for wind and solar.
That can already triple price of the renewable.
Does it account, that you should build extra capacity of many time what you need because not all the same regions have the same wind and sun exposition at the same time?
You can look how oversize is the installed capacity of Germany [1] compared to France.
Also, I'm not sure for the US but the EU got its solar panel production wiped out by the heavily subsided Chinese industry.
So the rather lower apparent cost of solar by might be partially driven by the Chinese attempt to pump money in to gain market share.
[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
- bryanlarsen 4y agoSolar panels can last 50 years. The main reason they don't is that they improve so much every decade that the opportunity cost of doubling power output per square meter makes it worth replacing them. So you're left with 2 theses: 1: solar panels will stop improving, so you should amortize over 50 years. 2: solar panels will keep improving, so cost / kWh will be less than a 50 year amortization.