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Comment Re:factoid (Score -1, Troll) 135

Ignoring the environmental factors because, you know, radiation, birds, CO2, ... ignore fuel too, too difficult
A 1 GW plant.
Nuclear about $10 billion to build, varies wildly between countries but $10 billion in a sane country. No back up battery needed.
Offshore wind $5 billion to build plus I'd add at least 5 x $1.68 billion for battery storage
Solar like you say $2.4 billion plus a short term storage $1.68 billion to cover night time PLUS 5 x $1.68 billion for battery storage
Gas maybe $1 billion and lets be fair $2.5 billion for gas storage to last a week (actually a month )

Solar or wind plus gas backup is clearly better than battery backup! I'm surprised, so maybe I made a mistake in the sums there.

Lets go further.
1 GW solar + 1 GW wind + 1 month compressed hydrogen storage + 1 x 500MW electrolysis + 1 GW hydrogen gas plant
$1.2 billion + $5 billion + $3 billion (ignore land use for 5000 trailer sized tanks) + $1 billion for electrolysis + $1 billion = roughly same as 1GW nuclear plant

Comment Re: For us dumbnuts (Score 1) 34

This seems like nonsense. I think observation is nothing to do with observation but more "making a measurement" It is nothing to do with you looking at stuff.
I don't really get it though. Where does something stop being quantum and start being measured/observed? Is it one electron? Two? Infinite?

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