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$98 per barrel oil
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: wrote in : 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. "Fossil" fuels have nothing to do with nuclear energy. The cost of electric production by nuclear energy includes the total life cycle cost of a nuclear facility if the numbers are honestly derived. Nope. Yep. "Levelized life-cycle cost is the total cost of a project from construction to retirement and decommissinon, expressed in present value and the spread evenly over the useful output (kWh) of the project." From just one source, feel free to find a contradictory one. http://www.keystone.org/spp/document...F6_12_2007.pdf The total life cycle is everything from the first study to the last cleanup on shutdown. But not the storage of the fuel or the cleanup of the damage done by it. You don't store fuel and what damage are you talking about? And it does include the disposition of nuclear waste. Talk to me again if the experiment at Cadarache succeeds, otherwise, you can keep them. Your personal preferences have nothing to do with what it costs in the real world. And since you probably don't know, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 requires that the costs of disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste be borne by the parties responsible for their generation. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act provides for two types of fees to be levied on the owners and generators of spent nuclear fuel: an ongoing fee of 1.0 mil (one tenth of one cent) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on nuclear electricity generated and sold after April 7, 1983, and a one-time fee for all nuclear electricity generated and sold prior to that date. Because the owners and generators of spent nuclear fuel are required to pay the full costs of its disposal, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act requires an annual assessment of the adequacy of the 1 mil/kWh fee. http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_librar...s/ocrwm007.htm So the disposal cost is payed up front as an operating cost. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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