Wind turbines are net subsidized. Fossil fuels pay large excise taxes and royalties, much larger than the tax breaks some of their producers get, and so are not net subsidized. Rather, they subsidize government, hugely, and government likes to share a little of this income with renewable energy...
Our host seems to know DonQuixote's points are inconvenient, but uses Quixote's anonymity as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Now, if Quixote is on a government payroll, anonymity is smart, possibly necessary, because when the use by nuclear power stations of dollar's worth of uranium is blocked in...
nedmadden gcowan Deadly indeed, in theory. Not at all in the league of the two made killers, wind turbines and natural gas combustion turbines, that form the system that governments now-a-days seem to like, but the potential is definitely there. Perhaps you no longer believe I have ...
@Bob Newman Two out of three ain't bad.
@Nelson Mills Not if Californians stand up to the oil and gas lobby -- even *if* they are discreet, and say "renewables and conservation". (Isn't it interesting how many more syllables euphemisms have than the things they euphemize.)
nedmadden gcowan I can't prove the stuff is dangerous at all. However, I believe the science in "Dose Rate Estimates from Irradiated Light-Water-Reactor Fuel Assemblies in Air", a report from LLNL, free on the web. It says a big square PWR fuel rod such as there are many of at San Onofre, ...
nedmadden gcowan Are you correct? No.
nedmadden kristoffer3 Neither does San Onofre, of course.
Neither does San Onofre, of course. If the Romans had had such a power station, and archeologists had dug up its spent fuel rods, these might now be displayed, unshielded or perhaps shielded only by glass cases, in museums. They wouldn't be a very interesting exhibit, so the possibility of a...
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