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FBaggins

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3. Then you'll have no problem with my proposal.

Reply to kristopher (Reply #2)

Tue May 7, 2013, 02:09 PM

May 2013

Just support a nice high carbon tax that makes coal clearly more expensive than cleaner alternatives and let the market decide.

Except... we both know that you'll just make noise pretending to support a carbon tax if it was possible politically. But sadly (sigh) it isn't possible. When we also both know that if the playing field was that level, nuclear power would win the day.

It's the same reason why you (falsely) tried to pretend a couple years back that a UK move to equally support all carbon-free generation was really a subsidy for nuclear power.

Taken in the more current context - offer offshore wind the same strike price and term (2/3rds of expected lifetime) that they're talking about using for nuclear power... and offshore wind in the UK would die on the vine.

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Why the free market can't do nuclear power and our industry is slowly declining (UK) [View all] kristopher May 2013 OP

The free market doesn't DO clean power. FBaggins May 2013 #1

There is no equivalency between renewables and nuclear kristopher May 2013 #2

Then you'll have no problem with my proposal. FBaggins May 2013 #3

How convenient of you to ignore the decades of subsidies for nuclear... kristopher May 2013 #4