Recent content by JeffYoung

Well, this is my area of the world. I live in Raleigh, lived in Sumter SC, and have traveled up and down the east coast. For BBQ, note that the BBQ changes quickly in this region. From Charlotte/western NC where it is BBQ pork, chopped with a red sauce, to eastern NC (my favorite) where it...

Now this is a good discussion. Good job fellows.

This is science, not politics.

Al's point was the nonsense that people wouldn't be building wind farms without subsidies. As you live in the UK I'm sure you realize that is 100% false. We do have a wind farm tax credit here in teh US but it's not why wind farms are built. They are built because with our without the credit...

So you are still here, and still wrong eh? Wind has made many people in this country wealthy since I last popped in here to read the tired old white guy BS. Wind is likely to be 30% of the power grid shortly (from 10% in 2021). 57% of Iowa's power comes from wind. Hell in Texas its 20%...

Thorium has been around a long time. When it's cheaper than coal, LNG, solar, wind, and hydro, plants will be built. Until then, it's not commercially viable.

Just to reiterate, US military reactors are probably the safest in the world. Not sure there has ever been a significant accident?

The military does, yes. Public and private utilities? Not so much. That said, my guess is the small scale nuke is probably the only way forward with them. The smaller scale does save some money. But even the smaller ones (see the article posted above) just are too expensive versus other...

What is it with the American "Conservative" fascination with shitting on renewables? I'm pro nuke, pro clean coal, realize a balanced grid is the solution. I don't spew nonsense anti-renewable talking points. Yes, of course, te size of a windfarm or a solar farm contributes to its cost. Duh...

Wrong. Swedes? Shutting down nukes. Germany? Same. Brits and Germans? Off shore wind. You didn't even read that article: Nuclear plant construction is currently underway in only three EU member states – Finland, France and Slovakia. These construction projects have all experienced cost...

Forgot the link. Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report | Reuters

Just to expound, solar and wind are relatively easy to install. Hydro a bit more complex (check out the Muskrat Falls disaster in Labrador!). Wind is really split into two types for cost purposes - -off shore is expensive, on shore much less so. Wind and hydro have permitting and regulatory...

No worries. A nuke plant even putting aside regulatory costs is just big and complicated and very very expensive. Plus, off shore wind, on shore wind and solar cost per kW hour is dropping. I can't say I know for sure the specifics other than what I state above -- renewables cost going down...

I'm pro nuke. Nukes AREN'T the answer because of cost. On shore wind, coal, LNG, hdyro, all much cheaper and WAY cheaper if you include shutdown costs. Removing some of the reguatory barriers on nuke construction and decommisioning would help with costs, but not enough to make them work...

You're in the US. It's skeptical here. Sceptical in the UK/Down Under.