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

Mr. HooberbloobOld Faithful

OldSalt posted:
You got a credible source for those figures or are you just making them up?

You can look up the solar yourself. I work in the power industry and am acutely aware of what a nuke can make a MW/h for. An average coal plant in the Valley is around 20 bucks. Been doing this for 20 years.

Nukes make billions of watts, steady state every hour of every day. To put in perspective, a 1 gigawatt nuke plant only consumes about 6 pounds of fuel per day. The fuel cost is a round off number subtracted from revenue made, it's essentially free. Solar can't compete because it will never have the mass volume electrons that nukes enjoy. They can say or print whatever they want, solar will never be as cheap as a nuke.

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