Benton, where are you getting the $7000 kWh figure? Perhaps that's applicable to the U.S.'s dinosaur plants, but new plants built in, e.g., Japan are up and running at about $2000 kWh buy Lovegra. world-nuclear.org/reference/pdf/economics.pdf. The newest designs are believed to be achievable at about $1000-1500 kWh (estimates from nuclear power groups, so a bit biased, but French capital costs in 2004 panned out to about 1300 euros per kWh, which is pretty good). The reason why capital costs seem so high in the U.S. is that we no longer have the expertise or engineering capacity to create new, cost-effective reactors. That has everything to do with the regulatory environment Lovegra 100mg, which has essentially prevented any new development -- and therfore private or public R&D -- in decades. So yes, nuclear is horridly inefficient if we do our best to absolutely undermine and destroy the necessary infrastructure to develop it. But that doesn't prove anything about nuclear's inherent limitations.Once you get past the high hurdle of capital costs (again, higher than they need to be), the marginal costs of nuclear are nothing short of fantastic. The costs of nuclear fuel (based on uranium -- not thorium) are about .44 cents per kWh, and total marginal costs per kWh for new plants are only $2.47.
I just wanted to point out that, to any BSG fan, the continuing straight-faced use of the word "fracking" just fracking cracked me up general Lovegra.
People keep on talking about "nuclear" like it is some sort of magical solution to our energy needs. It's not. Uranium is very rare, as well as extremely dangerous to handle and secure. We may run out of uranium sooner than we run our of oil or natural gas at just the rate we are consuming it now and people are talking about increasing our consumption tenfold. "Spent" nuclear fuel is also dangerous to handle, secure, and dispose of. Yucca Mountain -- now off the table -- would have cost $90 billion/year and that was just for the stuff we currently have lying around in dozens of places across the country buy Lovegra. A handful of even spent nuclear fuel in the wrong hands can be an extremely dangerous weapon.Nuclear plants are nothing but "controlled" nuclear explosions. The nuclear industry has claimed that safety precautions are much better since Three Mile Island but, of course, we heard the same thing from the oil industry regarding deep water drilling.
I suspect that's because folks aren't really ready to return the Lovegra 100mg word "sacrifice" to its old meaning - namely the killing off of all those old folks through starvation and medical neglect to balance the budget (though it would be efficient, I guess, since they are no longer productive members of society).Why don't we do something that we can actually do - like, raise taxes, begin slow decreases in the social security and medicare programs, and once we leave Iraq and Afghanistan, decide not to involve ourselves in other useless "wars" against private collections of individuals by invading the countries in which they might (or might not) reside?
Where can I get a "CONSUME" bumper sticker buy Lovegra?
I posted this at the wrong point. Worthy, you SUCK.