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You are just telling a story without any attempt to get a comprehensive view of all the facts. If you look at authoritative sources (not solar energy trade bodies etc) they pretty much all put the cost of nuclear at among (and probably the cheapest) of the lowest cost low emission technologies...

. You completely ignored what I wrote which is based on the real world, not wishful thinking. Do you understand what capacity factor is? It is a fact that cannot be wished away that during the last winter German PV output on many days was "next to nothing". It is also a fact that Germany...

Martin Rowson in the UK Guardian sums it up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2011/may/31/martin-rowson-germany-nuclear-cartoon Love the Vee-Dub full of coal and French president Sarkozy looking on.

What are you going to do when the whole thing doesn't hang together? Can very well happen no matter how many unit test are written and passed. Do you have the skill to write the specs for the interfaces to the required level of detail? If you are not an experienced programmer, it's very...

I doubt it. No way France is denuking, or Czech Republic or several other countries. If you read the UK governments Climate Change Committee's Renewable Energy Report, it very explicitly has a substantial amount of new nuclear power in every scenario. If they are serious about 50% emissions...

It was a bit, but the OP is pretty much right. Nuclear power is (was) over 20% of German electricity generation (which is about the average over all OECD countries). German solar PV nameplate capacity is about 17-18 GW, but it has a capacity factor of no more than 12% compared to nuclear 90%...

Auction clearance rates in Melbourne lowest since GFC: http://www.news.com.au/money/property/bargains-as-auction-rate-hammered/story-e6frfmd0-1226060130437

If you are buying a new machine Intel "Sandy Bridge" is a no brainer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge i5 2500 or 2500K gives great performance for the money. No point in going for the older i5's or i7's.

Can't be all bad. Maybe they will fit a kill switch to Alex Jones and do the world a service. BTW, the point of smart meters is to time shift electricity demand to better accommodate variable generators such as wind. It may not be as effective as some claim, but that is what they are for.

Rubbish. Wood smoke is very damaging and a serious heath issue for women cooking by wood fires in the developing world. This is well known. You think that these people would not jump at the chance to swap wood for electricity? What's with this 100% natural crap? Arsenic is 100% natural...

Whether it is "cool" or not, I really can't be bothered. What Alex Jones and his fellow travelers do is start with a purported conspiracy of simply monumental proportions (the NWO) and spin utter nonsense around every world event and subject of significant public interest to prove the existence...

I'd rather slam my finger in a car door - multiple times - than have to listen to Alex Jones for two weeks. [/b] According to err ..... Alex Jones! How many rogues, scoundrels and plain old nut jobs have over the years draped themselves in a flag? There is no statutory time limit on...

Some of it is not the way I would have done it, but it is reliable and robust which does count for quite a bit. The historical data portion of the API is a bit horrible and unnecessarily complicated to use. It is, however, perfectly possibly to make decent charts by using it. Multiple status...

I could not agree with you more. The official attitude to safe used fuel management has been poor. There is plenty of blame to go around here and both government and industry have not performed very well. There are in fact solutions to the used fuel issue. There are at least three: 1...

Your vast overstatement of the dangers of nuclear technology is leading you to take absurd positions. There are two sides to the "so called climate debate" - the science and the cranks. There are no scientific organizations of international standing that dispute climate change - no national...

Nuclear weapons testing at the height of of the cold war was possibly the worst case of deliberate environmental vandalism in history. All up, something like 14 tonnes of Plutonium was deliberately blown up in the atmosphere. At it's peak in 1963 it increased the average worldwide background...

This extensive IAE report on CO2 emissions shows electricity generation and heating to dominate CO2 emissions at about 40% of emissions. Transport and industry in that order are the next biggest emitters. http://www.iea.org/co2highlights/co2highlights.pdf See table "CO2 emissions by sector...

What to take away from this piece? Err ... just about nothing because at no stage does it refer to any authoritative source on costs. It is just opinion and poorly supported opinion into the bargain. If you want to talk about electricity generation costs, there is one key figure that you need...

Unlike fossil fuel industries that pay for their external costs eh? They simply go on spewing CO2 into the atmosphere completely unimpeded generating environmental problems orders of magnitude worse and just as long lasting. This immense scale of pollution (nearly 1kg CO2 per kWh for coal) does...

Except you are not talking about the workings of the civilian nuclear industry today or mostly ever except for a very limited number of dual purpose reactors. You are talking about the cleanup of cold war era weapons facilities. In the haste to close the "bomb gap" all sort of stuff was done to...