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Costs to generate electricity . . . from Forbes

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/07/08/the-direct-costs-of-energy-hydronuclear-best-solar-still-lagging/

To generate One Trillion kWhrs over their life-span . . .

For coal : $41.4 billion or 4.1¢/kWhr.

For nuclear : $34.9 billion or 3.5¢/kWhr.

For Solar : $76.8 billion or 7.7¢/kWhr.

Hydroelectric : $32.8 billion or 3.3¢/kWhr, the cheapest of all sources.
(But, one must have the water and altitude differential to produce it.)

Again, these costs do not include connecting to the grid or buffering of the intermittency of renewables to prevent grid crisis.

(I did not see a section on wind power. But, wind
power is also intermittent.)

Zim.




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