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Thomas Borchert wrote:
all those cost serveral
times what conventional electricity costs and the odds of making the
costs comparable to coventional methods is slim.


To come back to the start of the thread: we're getting there...

Not really.

With heroic effort we've managed to get the cost of "alternate"
sources of electricity down to 2 to 4 times what conventional
electricity costs, with the best costs being in the limited areas
where the alernates are optimized, for example solar power in very
sunny locations.


The effort can hardly be charaecterised as heroic and your figures are
incorrect since the costs of fossil fuel and nuke doesn't include the
borrowing involved.


Bertie