Comment Re:Small-scale, real-time. (Score 1) 502
I'm not afraid if a tiny difference in "COST" in solar vs. nuclear. What is COST if it's used to subsidize an American company and American workers vs. a company that most of it's money goes to a few, and it imports Russian Uranium?
It's kind of like "efficiency" -- an efficient economy means that you will get more work done for the same or less money. Unless I'm the hedge fund manager or CEO, it's really not going to be a benefit to me to constantly chase efficiency.
We want energy efficiency, but we will soon be looking for "make work" projects as the fast food and service industries get automated.
I'd rather be hiring people to install solar panels and build a grid into the road (to collect and distribute power).
The "Black Out" is more likely with an ancient grid during peak demand. Put people to work creating a better distributed grid (more jobs = less efficiency!!!) and the peak demand will be when the sun is up -- wow, good think I got solar.
Blackouts at night? Sure, but stuff happens. We can build solutions or we can keep paying the same rich people for the same problems and never solve new ones and give money to different people.