tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post9103580916180428821..comments2024-03-26T07:51:43.186+00:00Comments on Mabinogogiblog: Is Nuclear Power cheaper than renewable energy?DocRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-57788683399638120602011-11-08T21:53:14.954+00:002011-11-08T21:53:14.954+00:00Good points Mike
Electricity costs are notoriousl...Good points Mike<br /><br />Electricity costs are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but Wikipedia has an intro here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source<br /><br />They give average <br />Onshore Wind: 97 $/MWh<br />Offshore wind: 243 $/MWh<br />PV: 210 $/MWh <br />Nuclear: 113 $/MWh<br /><br />Addin insurance, Nuclear goes up to between 193 and a whopping $3,265 MWh.<br /><br />No wonder they don't talk about insuring it!<br /><br />Renewables are not just wind farms. It is multi-modal, and therefore divers and stable. Before you mention intermittency, read up on HVDC supergrid, if you haven't already.<br /><br />Thanks for pushing me to do the calculations. I've been putting it off for ages.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192922.post-48426175397009173322011-11-08T21:31:46.289+00:002011-11-08T21:31:46.289+00:00that make article make no mention of the cost of r...that make article make no mention of the cost of renewable, nor does it compare nuclear power with renewable power. <br />And apart from the slim figures of how much nuclear would be without subsidies. It contains no other data nor any forward link to back up the data clams.<br />The title you gave is terrible misleading and uninformative. I better title would be 'Another rant about nuclear energy but this one from a doctorate' because that what it amounts to.<br />Instead of ranting come up with visible solutions. Nuclear power is used not because it's cheep but because it has a high capacity output while taking up a very little space. I'd be all for wind farms but not only does no one want to live by a wind farm but you need a vast amount of them to generate the same out put than our existing nuclear stations. Couple that with the rarity of suitable wind farm area. (since wind turbines do shit unless there wind to drive them.)<br />We need better solutions for our power grid make up and try to forget about the cost, while it matters in some regard it shouldn't hold back your ideas.<br /><br />~ Mike<br /><br />P.S. I regard nuclear energy to be the less evil to coal power stations. Nuclear or coal choose one or remove yourself from the power grid.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217515505693836671noreply@blogger.com