[ExI] cost of energy by source

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

Sound like to total bullshit. Wind cheaper than coal? Really? Why then do
you need government subsidies to build wind turbines and government
persecution to eradicate coal power plants?

Rafal

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:53 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Energy hipsters among us, do feel free to comment on this article.  I will
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
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> I don’t know how they are dealing with the full-cycle costs however.  I
> need to re-read and get up to speed on assumed life cycle of their
> systems.  Most of these articles tend to look only at initial startup costs
> and cost of capital.  Finance gurus might comment, but as I understand it,
> rising capital costs tend to favor ground-based solar, since the plants are
> not so capital-intensive, ja?  We don’t need to scale them way the hell up
> to get economies of scale on those?
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> This topic has to have been studied to death.  What we need are pointers
> to the credible sources.
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