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If you price in pollution, doesn't nuclear become the cheapest base load provider?
by robertlagrant 2y ago
If you price in pollution, doesn't nuclear become the cheapest base load provider?
- bryanlarsen 2y agoNo, not even close.
- robertlagrant 2y agoFancy elaborating?
- bryanlarsen 2y agoLet's say the cost of pollution for a tonne of CO2 is about $100. Using some silly and outdated assumptions, solar power is listed at 41 g CO2 / kWh and therefore has a pollution "cost" of 0.4 cents. The cost of a kWh from a solar panel ranges from 0.5 - 4 cents, so adding the two together is still way under the cost per kWh of nuclear power whether or not you add the 12 g CO2 / kWh carbon footprint of nuclear power.
- robertlagrant 2y agoSolar power is not base load.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoNeither is nuclear. You're commenting on an article where France is turning off their nuclear power plants because they have too much solar energy. If they're turning them off, they're not baseload generation.