Re: Are there likely to be severe power shortages

Gaz wrote:
w_tom wrote:
On Jun 25, 2:12 pm, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
And what you are overlooking is that solar will probably be about a
quarter the price of nuclear, so demand will shift accordingly. Right
now electricity at night is cheaper.
Again, you missed the entire point. Your reasoning is again
completely subjective. If you know this, then you have numbers.
Where are your numbers? That was the point. Your entire conclusion
is wild speculation because (and again) you don't have numbers. What
do major electric consumers do. Work 24/7 because their factories are
that expensive or cost too much to shutdown for 8 or 16 hours.
Disagree? Fine. Where are your numbers? Where is your research?
That was the point. No numbers is a symptom of junk science
reasoning.

Solar power, with present technology *cannot* provide the core needs, it just doesnt give us the bulk we need.

"Present technology".
By the time those shiny new expensive nuclear power stations come online in 10-15 years time solar will be vastly cheaper.

The capital cost of the machine capable of producing 1GW per year of thin film at Nonosolar costs $1.6m. That's the model for the future. Of course, you may say it's all hype etc, but the fact they can claim that and not be laughed out of the industry is very telling.

--
Dirk

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