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>Levelized Cost of Energy for solar is 30-60$ and 100-200$ for nuclear. With the storage for shitty winter weeks? What's the source on that one? Mind you I lov
by modo_mario 7mo ago
>Levelized Cost of Energy for solar is 30-60$ and 100-200$ for nuclear.
With the storage for shitty winter weeks? What's the source on that one?
Mind you I love solar since i'd like to go relatively off grid one day but i've heard too much bullshit around this.
>but it is not clear where you would buy fuel for it, It might still be a supply chain risk since Russia and Kazakhstan are the main players there.
There's a lot of locations from my understanding and a lot more that don't produce anything simply because Russia and Kazakhstan and such don't make it worthwile.
It's a tiny share of the cost of production in the end.
- Leherenn 7mo agoI believe the standard is 4h of storage.
- Chyzwar 7mo agoRussia and Kazakhstan control almost 50% of global production and enrichment of uranium. Even today 17% EU supply come from Russia. Uranium mining is not pretty, read about "in situ leaching" mining.
- leonidasrup 7mo agoKazakhstan does uranium mining but doesn't do uranium enrichment. Other big uranium mining countries, which don't do uranium enrichment, are: Namibia, Canada, Australia, Uzbekistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Uranium_Mining_Production_2021.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Uranium_Mining_Prod... "The following countries are known to operate enrichment facilities: Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Global_enrichment_facilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Global_enrich... Uranium enrichment is military and therefor politically very sensitive process.