Big Fitz
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Boy you sure are trying to pull a fast one Crocks.
These are residential systems for single homes with tax rebates built into the costs.
Now if you expand it to industrial scale and compare it to other forms of electrical generation, it sucks mightilly. 1000 kilowatts in a megawatt, right? On an industrial scale it looks more like this when you compare energy production. And this is off highly suspect Wikipedia for being biased towards green energy.
Advanced Nuclear $67/MWh
Coal $74-88/MWh
Natural Gas $313-346/MWh
Geothermal $67/MWh
Hydro power $48-86/MWh
Wind power $60/MWh
Solar $116-312/MWh
See that? At BEST solar energy is slightly less than DOUBLE the cost of Nuclear, Coal and Geothermal. It is almost TRIPLE the cost for Hydro power at it's most efficient. And I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt for the most efficient solar. The only surprising energy source is wind, but that obviously doesn't take into account many other bigger problems it has.
Pop goes your panacea. Because if we take your numbers, nuclear power still costs 6.7 cents per kwh. I think that's the better deal right there.
These are residential systems for single homes with tax rebates built into the costs.
Now if you expand it to industrial scale and compare it to other forms of electrical generation, it sucks mightilly. 1000 kilowatts in a megawatt, right? On an industrial scale it looks more like this when you compare energy production. And this is off highly suspect Wikipedia for being biased towards green energy.
Advanced Nuclear $67/MWh
Coal $74-88/MWh
Natural Gas $313-346/MWh
Geothermal $67/MWh
Hydro power $48-86/MWh
Wind power $60/MWh
Solar $116-312/MWh
See that? At BEST solar energy is slightly less than DOUBLE the cost of Nuclear, Coal and Geothermal. It is almost TRIPLE the cost for Hydro power at it's most efficient. And I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt for the most efficient solar. The only surprising energy source is wind, but that obviously doesn't take into account many other bigger problems it has.
Pop goes your panacea. Because if we take your numbers, nuclear power still costs 6.7 cents per kwh. I think that's the better deal right there.