Friday, September 16, 2011

French nuclear power pricing, and solar power pricing

Via Romm:
Pro-nuclear power France still has escalating costs for nuclear power. It's not American litigation driving these costs.


Also via Romm:



My opinion is that we should maintain and relicense most nuclear power plants (that's cheap), but nukes don't have an expanded role absent massive Republican governmental subsidies, with an unhelpful loan subsidy assist from Obama. A lot safer than coal, though.

UPDATE: probably should add that widely distributed wind power and grid charging off of power stored in plug-in car batteries could handle much of the night time load.