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deepnotderp | 5 months ago

$3/GJ is $108/MWH which any large scale fission buildout would easily beat for thermal energy costs

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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 right

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