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> I want it to happen even if it slightly increases my power bill or my taxes. And as far as I understand the increase would be slight, if any at all. Vogtle i
by epistasis 1y ago
> I want it to happen even if it slightly increases my power bill or my taxes. And as far as I understand the increase would be slight, if any at all.
Vogtle is showing that to be wrong. It costs something like $180-$200/MWh, when market value is around $50/MWh on average. Solar with enough storage to operate as baseload is far cheaper than nuclear today, and will only get cheaper over the next decade. See for example:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uaes-masdar-launches-facility-produce-1gw-uninterrupted-renewable-energy-2025-01-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uaes-masdar-launches...
- H8crilA 1y agoOkay, but now run the numbers not for a middle eastern desert but for say Germany, or similar latitudes/weather patterns in the US. ChatGPT roughly estimated the cost to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $500/MWh.
- epistasis 1y agoThat is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. ChatGPT is an innumerate as contemporary nuclear advocates. I regularly run the numbers for the US, and using old NREL numbers it's $120/MWh. The US has great solar resources. Germany has some of the worst. But in any case most of the cost is in the battery, not the panels, which are cheap. So bump that up and it doesn't change the cost much. I'm any case, unless you are Finland or similar, nuclear is not on the table.
- H8crilA 1y agoI see. Which part of the US? And the cost of the battery is included the price I gave. Battery is the main reason why it is so high.