Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
by pfdietz on Sunday September 22, 2019 @08:06AM
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France is evidence that putative economic buildouts of nuclear are not repeatable, if they were ever actually economical in the first place.
It is not an option we know will work. The inability of France to replicate their previous putative success means we can't take any of that for granted.
We have evidence that nuclear will NOT be economical at scale. The evidence is there in a cavalcade of disastrous experiences, even in places like France were experience supposedly, by your reasoning, would have told us to expect otherwise.
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
by mlyle on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:39PM
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Well, France exists and is not bankrupt. France has managed to do it, and leads Europe in carbon output per unit of electricity, and will not be matched for quite some time.
It is not an option we know will work. The inability of France to replicate their previous putative success means we can't take any of that for granted.
We have evidence that nuclear will NOT be economical at scale. The evidence is there in a cavalcade of disastrous experiences, even in places like France were experience supposedly, by your reasoning, would have told us to expect otherwise.