Joe Romm's Colorado Renewable Energy Society slides on nuclear power costs

Oct 2, 2016 12:11 AM

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Exhibit A

From the keynote address by Dr. Joseph Romm, creator of climateprogress.org, at the Annual Wirth Sustainability Luncheon in Denver, Colorado, Sept 9, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ag3b1WCYc

Exhibit B

From the keynote address by Dr. Joseph Romm, creator of climateprogress.org, at the Annual Wirth Sustainability Luncheon in Denver, Colorado, Sept 9, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ag3b1WCYc

Except it's priced in GDP so divide by a thousand as Brexit approaches. Then it's free.

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why the downvotes

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Pretty hard to compete when wind and solar get stupid high subsidies and are basically worthless for base load power

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Storage is pretty easy: pumped hydroelectric, batteries, underground compressed air, etc.

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Batteries? Do some research. Unless you find a way to make a SiO battery or something non toxic, your wind solar becomes worse for earth.

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Windmills are incredibly inefficient and slaughter birds. Go find one. Watch it. Then look up the Betz limit and how far we are from it.

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Finally. The best panels are maybe 5% efficient DC. so some analysis to see how many square miles need to be cut to get the same energy

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As a kg of U235.

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