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granted, water and wind are the best/cheapest, but not reliable or always as abundant. I have seen droughts drive up rates because the cheaper hydro facilities could not produce power. Natural gas combustion turbines are too expensive to run, except during times of peak power demand (especially middle of summer and winter). Nuclear plants claim to be cheap, but by the time you calculate in refueling, and every other nickel and penny, it can't touch fossil. Plus, it takes YEARS to build a nuclear unit, plus the 4 or 5 years it takes to just get the license. I can say first hand that fossil has come a long way, with scrubbers, SCRs, and low-NOx burners (to name a few) to reduce emissions. Unfortunately, coal is too cheap and abundant in the US to give it up as a fuel source for power.
And who wants a nuclear plant to pop up in their back yard?
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Conversation between my sister and my wife (shortly before we got married):
Wife: "You know, sometimes I think he loves that Z more than he does me."
Sister: "He probably does, and as long as you're okay with that, everything will be fine." |
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