Solar and Wind are not that big a part of the grid. Sorry. Low gas prices are killing nuclear and will for a long time. Not once did Entergy mention Solar or Wind. I can replace Fitz with an equivalent Gas plant with 1/10th the people at 325 Million. It will make money within a year. Why wouldn't I choose that option?
In an economy with an infrastructure based solely on profit, at the expense of all else,...
that is the answer,...
that is a significant part of why nuclear is failing,...
my thought is we have enough natural gas to power the transportation segment of our economy for three hundred years plus,....
three hundred years of self sufficiency at current technology levels,...
to burn
THAT to push electrons down a wire is to me, to be, a bit short sighted,...
better to maintain or improve our standard of living for many generations to come than for a single generation,...
we are burning our food for transportation fuel, and our transportation fuel to make the lights go on,...
we're assinine,...
...The politicians neither own nor run the nukes.......
nope, but they do make the rules, like the rules of no long term repository feasible, viable, allowable,...
they don't own the gas or oil either, but they can sure shutdown the pipelines to get it from point A to point B,...
if I live in Nebraska, I cannot heat my home with fuel from Pennsylvania if the politicians get in the way of me getting that fuel,...
at fair market price,...
ergo, you don't have to own it to run it,...
the politicians play a part,...
so does INPO,...
and as far as "cheap gas" is concerned, "they" keep spouting how gas is cheap, and gas has become an increasingly larger part of the power generation end of my electric bill,..........which does not get cheaper,....
I'm not seeking to debate back and forth because these are just my observations and outlooks,...
nuclear has to be able to pull it's own weight or it will go away,...
is nuclear pulling it's weight as part of a comprehensive, reliable, long term national energy policy?
or trying to survive in an all about the now, let tomorrow take care of itself, free for all?!?!?!?!
in the former; commercial or public-benefit (TVA, NYPA, et al) nuclear does have a place,...
in the latter; commercial nuclear is the proverbial buggy whip and public-benefit is pedantic...