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Originally Posted by cfg83
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If anything this shows how far from practical solar technology is, it needs to have a 43 cent per KWH subsidy to make it competitive(!). The pricing structure also means consumers simply have it added to their electricity bill. Instead of the subsidy coming out of a government budget every consumer and industrial user is paying inflated electricity bills.
Also that still doesn't solve the intermittentcy problem. Germany has become so anti-nuclear that they will jump through hoops, import nuclear power from France, import it from the Czech republic, saturate the entire landscape with windmills just to avoid building a reactor.
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Originally Posted by cfg83
It would make convenient sense that we're building coal because we have huge reserves (Carter said this in the late 1970's).
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Oh we do, so does Germany. It makes perfect economic sense, sadly it doesn't make environmental sense.
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I don't believe you on the nuclear waste disposal issue.
CarloSW2
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That's fine, feel free to research it yourself. I'm not asking you to take my word for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_nuclear_fuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX