Re: Nuclear back on

In message <1148327897.390738.251730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dezakin@xxxxxxx writes

David Hansen wrote:
On 19 May 2006 15:15:47 -0700 someone who may be dezakin@xxxxxxx
wrote this:-

>Well, if you campaign to shut down nuclear, you're essentially
>campaigning to boost coal.

Anything to backup this assertion?

Electricity demand is only projected to rise over the next several
decades,

As I recall, UK consumption has not gone up massively of late. If the trend to low energy appliances and the work of the likes of the Carbon Trust continue, consumption might actually start to fall. And then there are the financial incentives.


natural gas is far too expensive for anything but peaking
power,

Well, it will be at some point...


wind isn't dispatchable,

Pardon ?


and hydro is all used up.

Don't know about that, but flooding farms and villages certainly pisses people off !


Coal and nuclear both have very similar pricing per kilowatt hour

According to who, and worked out how ?


and
both are ideal for baseload. The difference in cost is that nuclear
spends it in capital, where coal spends it in fuel.

So nuclear fuel is free then ?


Of course I generalized.

Yes. Approximated even...


We can campaign to shut down nuclear and coal
if we double everyones electricity costs. I don't think thats going to
fly.

Well not for Mr Bush anyway...


Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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