Comment Re:SOLAR (Score 1, Informative) 148
Why the fuck dont they just put up a load of solar panels... $10 Billion will buy you a LOT of them.
Price per watt for solar is in the $5 range, not counting discounts for massive purchases.
But without moderately massive amounts of energy storage, a 2GW solar facility won't really do you all that much good.
Ultimately, this is about baseload as opposed to peak load. Solar can supply peak load, it doesn't do baseload nearly so well. Nuclear is the reverse.***
***caveat: it IS possible to design a nuclear power plant to handle large transients. Nuclear powered ships use such reactors. That particular type of reactor is, to say the least, uncommon for commercial plants.