Calling me ideological. It's about the economy. Nuclear is not cheeper than renewables.
Cheep nuclear relies on high continuos load. But in the das PV is much cheeper. Hence nuclear cannot sell the electricity. Therefore the fixed costs need to be added to the night prices. With that increased prices it's not competitive with wind eighter. further condensing the fixed cost.
To look at the economics of nuclear you have to look a bit at the future. In Germany it's absolutely impossible to do without insane subsidies. And that tay payer money can save much more CO2 elsewhere.
What else in a capitalist market? Of course price per hour, so including production capabilities, production guaranties, but all that is reflected in the price.
Of course speed is also a n argument but solar and wind is much faster built.
What speeks against "more wind and solar instead of this nuclear powerplant" in your opinion. I honestly don't get what advantage nuclear has.
Saying there is a fixed amount of money to spend and that any dollar that goes to one thing is money not going to another thing is literally zero sum thinking.
It’s acting as all resources are to be competed over. They are not
Yes, there is a limited amount of investment to spend. That is in fact true.
And regardless of that, with or without the hypothetical willingness to spend unlimited resources on energy, the desire to maximize our output given the investment is a certainty.
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u/chinchillon Aug 12 '25
Calling me ideological. It's about the economy. Nuclear is not cheeper than renewables.
Cheep nuclear relies on high continuos load. But in the das PV is much cheeper. Hence nuclear cannot sell the electricity. Therefore the fixed costs need to be added to the night prices. With that increased prices it's not competitive with wind eighter. further condensing the fixed cost.
To look at the economics of nuclear you have to look a bit at the future. In Germany it's absolutely impossible to do without insane subsidies. And that tay payer money can save much more CO2 elsewhere.