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Ghost Dog

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14. Should you not include the time and cost of safely decommissioning

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 09:48 PM

May 2018

nuclear power stations and storing spent fuel and other radioactive waste in your calculations, NNadir?

Not to mention time and costs involved in dealing with the occasional, inevitable, apparently, catastrophic "accident"?

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Average Lifetime of Danish Wind Turbines, as of February 2018. [View all] NNadir May 2018 OP

The increased use of wind and solar energy will drive innovation. procon May 2018 #1

It will drive waste. The remark that this industry is in "infancy" is delusional. NNadir May 2018 #2

To do nothing is better? procon May 2018 #3

Infancy stage??? Really? hunter May 2018 #6

Chronology is probably not the best comparison to offer. procon May 2018 #7

Even if wind turbines were perfect machines lasting 100 years without service... hunter May 2018 #9

I mentioned innovation above because there is need procon May 2018 #10

"wind turbines will match the lifetime of the Surry Nuclear Station in 104 years" Nitram May 2018 #4

Not a complet and fair and complete comparison between Wind Turbines and Nuclear Plant. mackdaddy May 2018 #5

Nuclear power plants have had consistently the highest capacity utilization of energy systems... NNadir May 2018 #12

I wonder why you cherry-picked one nuclear plant ... GeorgeGist May 2018 #8

Presumably, more than 45 years later, we could build something more durable. hunter May 2018 #11

I'm not sure this is true, since the infrastructure has been destroyed by ignorance and greed. NNadir May 2018 #16

This post originated with a comment on Dominion's decision to build gas plants to go "renewable." NNadir May 2018 #13

Should you not include the time and cost of safely decommissioning Ghost Dog May 2018 #14

The climate scientist Jim Hansen has done this... NNadir May 2018 #15

Incapable of seeing the forest for the trees... Finishline42 May 2018 #17

If wind turbines could be bought as seeds that you could plant like trees... hunter May 2018 #18

The use of wind and solar increases the cost of coal and nat gas Finishline42 May 2018 #19

For grid applications battery capacity is measured in minutes. hunter May 2018 #20