top | item 45186566 (no title) deepnotderp | 5 months ago $3/GJ is $108/MWH which any large scale fission buildout would easily beat for thermal energy costs discuss order hn newest pfdietz|5 months ago You misplaced a decimal point. A MWH is 3.6 GJ, so it's $10.8/MWH.$3/GJ is about the current Henry Hub price for natural gas, and as you should know cheap natural gas like this is what killed the "nuclear renaissance" in the US. deepnotderp|5 months ago Oh my bad, you’re rightRe: Nat gas, agreed, it’s not solar though, storage is much more expensiveThermal energy still needs to drive a turbine to generate electricity load replies (1)
pfdietz|5 months ago You misplaced a decimal point. A MWH is 3.6 GJ, so it's $10.8/MWH.$3/GJ is about the current Henry Hub price for natural gas, and as you should know cheap natural gas like this is what killed the "nuclear renaissance" in the US. deepnotderp|5 months ago Oh my bad, you’re rightRe: Nat gas, agreed, it’s not solar though, storage is much more expensiveThermal energy still needs to drive a turbine to generate electricity load replies (1)
deepnotderp|5 months ago Oh my bad, you’re rightRe: Nat gas, agreed, it’s not solar though, storage is much more expensiveThermal energy still needs to drive a turbine to generate electricity load replies (1)
pfdietz|5 months ago
$3/GJ is about the current Henry Hub price for natural gas, and as you should know cheap natural gas like this is what killed the "nuclear renaissance" in the US.
deepnotderp|5 months ago
Re: Nat gas, agreed, it’s not solar though, storage is much more expensive
Thermal energy still needs to drive a turbine to generate electricity