Skip to main content

Reply to "Wind, solar to be cheapest form of power generation by 2030: Study"

I'm not at liberty to post business sensitive info on a forum.  Really don't care if you don't believe me, doesn't make it any less true.  You can easily google production costs for nukes, coal, and solar and get a US average, I'm sure.  I'm not going to spend time looking up facts I already know firsthand.

As far as solar and nukes go, you are literally comparing the prices at a 7-11 convienence store to prices at Costco.  The amount of energy produced from just one unit of Uranium is staggering, it's equal to around 3 million units of coal.  With solar having an average capacity factor of 20%, can you imagine how much land would be required to generate 3600 megawatts (like a local nuke plant) of electricity considering the solar plant in Oakland occupies one square mile and only replaces 15 megawatts of conventional sources?  Remember, it's not about rated output, it's all about how many megawatt-hours can be produced in a day.

Again, I'm not anti solar, I'm just accepting the reality of the matter.


Untitled Document
×
×
×
×