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Not sure about that. On paper, it looks like it. On practice, my mother pays 30€ a month of electricity in France, where nuclear energy is everywhere. She ask
by BiteCode_dev 3y ago
Not sure about that.
On paper, it looks like it.
On practice, my mother pays 30€ a month of electricity in France, where nuclear energy is everywhere. She asked for a quote to get panels on her house, and they got back to her with 20000€.
Sure you can move the needle by noting I drain way more power than her, than she heats her house using fossil fuel and that the quotes could be have been reduced in many ways.
You can also note that solar panels have to be replaced several times, take much more space, don't have to including wiring in their ROI calculation (while nuclear does for some weird reason) and are created by electricity generated by fossil or nuclear fuel, so their building price is already cheap.
I wouldn't say the answer is that clear cut.
- cinntaile 3y agoWhat do you mean wiring isn't included? How is a quote not the total price, including labour and material costs?
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoI mean that in France, the reports assessing the cost of the energy produced by wind turbines and solar panels don't include the wiring from the source of energy to where the energy is distributed. Which is logical. For some reason I don't know, nuclear reactors cost evaluation must include the wiring.
- cinntaile 3y agoSince you kept talking about solar panels it was very unclear that you were no longer talking about the quote your mom got.
- shakow 3y agoAnd that's with the ARENH screwing the French people w.r.t. the actual production price of EDF (mostly) nuclear energy.