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> I mean, maybe not, but what makes you so sure?

Maybe it is the decade-and-a-half that I've been studying the energy situation in some detail?

The nuclear industry has a typical installed unit cost of $25B or thereabouts (that's usually not the original estimate or even close to that). A typical windpark is a fraction of that and solar deployments are much smaller as well.

Besides that the market for solar and windpower is much more fragmented, with nuclear there are only very few parties on the supply side.



"Maybe it is the decade-and-a-half that I've been studying the energy situation in some detail?"

OK but you can not expect everybody else to take your personal experience at face value.

The average windpark may be smaller, but companies producing panels and rotators presumably are quite big.

A lot of money has already been invested by governments, and much, much more is to come. I don't think the individual costs of nuclear power plants proves anything one way or another.




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