Race to the future : Grid Parity

[mrlloyd]

From California comes this

California Energy Commission: COMPARATIVE COSTS OF CALIFORNIA CENTRAL STATION ELECTRICITY GENERATION
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2009publications/CEC-200-2009-017/CEC-200-2009-017-SF.PDF

The report shows - among many other things - that in 2018, a 960 MW Perssurized Water Reactor would generate

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What we lawyers get trained to do

[condign]

mrlloyd:
GE's global research director . . . suggests that the price of Solar is going to be down below $0.15/kWh in the near future.

GE's global research director:
If we can get solar at 15 cents a kilowatt-hour or lower, which I’m hopeful that we will do, you’re going to have a lot of people that are going to want to have solar at home.

Emphasis mine, in both cases.

I'll leave the holes in the last paragraph as an exercise for someone else to point out.

Re: What we lawyers get trained to do

[mrlloyd]

The hippies are still right, and have been for years. :-)

Re: What we lawyers get trained to do

[condign]

Having wandered through three of the Spanish protest sit ins in the last few weeks, including the big one in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, I can agree thus far: the hippies are still here, and are as fragrant as ever.

One question: why hasn't Greenpeace wandered over to these folks and told them that if they're not going to use solar/wind/self-righteousness-powered demos for their protests, they could at least tune their generators? I can't believe they're working at peak efficiency, let alone minimizing the pollution levels. Listening to those things chug away makes me wince.