Why has nuclear increased in price and coal has stayed the same?
It should be made clear that the source WNISR (the World Nuclear Industry Status Report) is a publication from an anti-nuclear lobby group called WISE (World Information Service on Energy). It’s not really surprising that they find rising prices for nucelar and should be taken with a grain of salt.
I doubt this very much. Germany is shutting down all nuclear plants. Covered every inch with solar panels and erected so many windturbines that can see no further than 500 meter. And yet they have the highest energy price of all of Europe.
As usual with these figures the cost for wind and solar is disingenuous as it never includes the cost of backup plant or storage for when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.
Brace yourself for the Rosatom and Framatom shareholders! It’s just the matter of hours to come in guns blazing to tell you the nuclear is the only option we have! Nothing else!
I constantly wonder how most commenters imagine the nuclear power: probably like in Red Alert. 3000 money, and after 1 minute of building time, you put it down and boom you have 5000 energy points to run the radar.
Uranium needs to be produced? Never heard of it! It needs cooling? LolWhat? Nuclear waste? Pffft… Govt subsidies all over it? Well wind turbines are bad.
HaVeYoUheaRDoFTHORIUM???
Thank you very much France, but we in Italy, Austria and Germany dont want your Reactors.
Can’t wait to see 2021’s gas prices, considering it’s risen 86.36% in a year..
Solar and wind both are our hope, curious is nuclear
Where is Hydroelectric?
The nuclear power is the cheapest, when you build one power plant it will serve you for atleast 60 years.
Right. Now try to buy 1kWh of solar energy at night and tell me how expensive it is.
This is LCOE, it’s not a useful metric for grid management. You want system costs which include the cost of the grid, the cost of flexibilities (for solar and wind in particular), the cost of waste management (for nuclear in particular). Unfortunately it’s way easier to just rely on a catch-all number from LCOE (which is also considerably easier to compute), even though it isn’t a good approach.
Terrible chart, no units. Is this USD cents/kWh or what? It’s unclear.
Nuclear remains one of the best alternatives I believe and still stunned my country, Belgium, is thinking of getting out of it.
If you read bill gates new book about climate change, (next book review on my youtube channel Ben vgb), you would understand that it’s a technology that needs new investment as it hasn’t changed that much since the cold war. hence the miss-information regarding it are outdated but so the efficiency of the prediction site.
If we were to invest in it, the price would go up but then we would have a strong, eco-friendly, and healthy supply of energy all year round.
so sorry for my little anger expression, but yeah felt like it could be said
Where’s oil?
The generation cost is meaningless for the consumers, it’s the cost on the grid that we pay for, that’s the one that concern the citizens.
Don’t show this to Reddit, they’ve already made up their mind that nuclear is perfect and it’s the second coming of christ
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Why has nuclear increased in price and coal has stayed the same?
It should be made clear that the source WNISR (the World Nuclear Industry Status Report) is a publication from an anti-nuclear lobby group called WISE (World Information Service on Energy). It’s not really surprising that they find rising prices for nucelar and should be taken with a grain of salt.
WISE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Information_Service_on_Energy
WNISR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Nuclear_Industry_Status_Report
I doubt this very much. Germany is shutting down all nuclear plants. Covered every inch with solar panels and erected so many windturbines that can see no further than 500 meter. And yet they have the highest energy price of all of Europe.
As usual with these figures the cost for wind and solar is disingenuous as it never includes the cost of backup plant or storage for when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.
Brace yourself for the Rosatom and Framatom shareholders! It’s just the matter of hours to come in guns blazing to tell you the nuclear is the only option we have! Nothing else!
I constantly wonder how most commenters imagine the nuclear power: probably like in Red Alert. 3000 money, and after 1 minute of building time, you put it down and boom you have 5000 energy points to run the radar.
Uranium needs to be produced? Never heard of it! It needs cooling? LolWhat? Nuclear waste? Pffft… Govt subsidies all over it? Well wind turbines are bad.
HaVeYoUheaRDoFTHORIUM???
Thank you very much France, but we in Italy, Austria and Germany dont want your Reactors.
1. Now compare to this graph https://energy.utexas.edu/news/nuclear-and-wind-power-estimated-have-lowest-levelized-co2-emissions
2. The cost of wind and solar doesn’t include the price of grid upgrades and storage and backup gas to cover up their variability
Can’t wait to see 2021’s gas prices, considering it’s risen 86.36% in a year..
Solar and wind both are our hope, curious is nuclear
Where is Hydroelectric?
The nuclear power is the cheapest, when you build one power plant it will serve you for atleast 60 years.
Right. Now try to buy 1kWh of solar energy at night and tell me how expensive it is.
This is LCOE, it’s not a useful metric for grid management. You want system costs which include the cost of the grid, the cost of flexibilities (for solar and wind in particular), the cost of waste management (for nuclear in particular). Unfortunately it’s way easier to just rely on a catch-all number from LCOE (which is also considerably easier to compute), even though it isn’t a good approach.
Terrible chart, no units. Is this USD cents/kWh or what? It’s unclear.
Nuclear remains one of the best alternatives I believe and still stunned my country, Belgium, is thinking of getting out of it.
If you read bill gates new book about climate change, (next book review on my youtube channel Ben vgb), you would understand that it’s a technology that needs new investment as it hasn’t changed that much since the cold war. hence the miss-information regarding it are outdated but so the efficiency of the prediction site.
If we were to invest in it, the price would go up but then we would have a strong, eco-friendly, and healthy supply of energy all year round.
so sorry for my little anger expression, but yeah felt like it could be said
Where’s oil?
The generation cost is meaningless for the consumers, it’s the cost on the grid that we pay for, that’s the one that concern the citizens.
Don’t show this to Reddit, they’ve already made up their mind that nuclear is perfect and it’s the second coming of christ
B… but incels hate raw reality!