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1. Tax the carbon emissions of all industries. 2. Let the market decide how to profitably generate power.
by TheDudeMan 4y ago
1. Tax the carbon emissions of all industries.
2. Let the market decide how to profitably generate power.
- WalterBright 4y agoIt's much easier to tax the carbon content of fuel, rather than try to measure what the industry emits.
- Krssst 4y agoAre grid operators and electricity generation operators separated in the US? Depending on the grid policy, what is profitable may change. If in case of surproduction you ask baseload to reduce production in favor of NREs, then NREs will be more profitable (compared to a fifty-fifty approach) and baseload will be less so. On the opposite, if you ask NRE to reduce production, baseload will be more profitable. (in case of fossil baseload generation, favoring NREs makes a lot of sense since you save the fuel cost, but for nuclear uranium is only a minor part of the cost)
- natmaka 4y agoThis facet of the "merit of order" is, amongst clean (non-greenhouse-effect emitting) sources, mainly decided upon the cost of production, and therefore renewables are already (and more and more) preferred upon nuclear, reducing its capacity factor and therefore condemning it (because a nuclear reactor economics implies a high capacity factor: letting it down or idle is very expensive). https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020 https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020