<div>Yes, I'd like to see a good analysis of the real costs of (various forms of ) nuclear, minus the unnecessary regulatory costs and delays. It's true that nuclear in the US is currently not cheap with subsidy (but not expensive either), but it does look like a good chunk of that cost could be done away with and might never have existed if not for persistent and intensive pressure from environmentalists who wanted to kill this energy source.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:02 PM, David Lubkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lubkin@unreasonable.com">lubkin@unreasonable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Spike wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">If we look around us, everywhere I see astonishing energy waste, just<br>because energy is cheap and plentiful. Oil is still so cheap it strangles<br>
out most alternative energy sources.<br></blockquote><br></div>And there's a lot of known energy, e.g., nuclear, coal, and natural gas, that can be readily tapped without much technical fuss. We may balk at one or other but someone else won't, and energy is fungible.<br>
<br>Aside, any idea how fast we could build gigawatt reactors in a real crunch? (That is, in a WW II grade focus, bypassing all current hurdles.)<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- David.</font>
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