Cost of German Solar is Four Times Finnish Nuclear

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4. Hardly the heritage foundation.

Your continued (weak) attempt to paint environmentalists who fail to accept your gospel as the only way to climate salvation wears thin.


Why 20 years?

For the reasons cited in the piece. That's the length of time that the incentives run. But it's ridiculous to claim that solar panels last "at least" 40 years(particularly if they're sitting on someone's roof). On the other hand, the nuclear plant should last decades longer than even that... so a longer timeline would only help the nuclear case.

Why just solar?

Why not?

To perform the same peaking function with nuclear

Why on earth would anyone want to mirror the variability of solar? Talk about a false comparison. Yeah... it would be expensive to try to limit a nuclear plant to only what solar can offer... but what would be the point? The place where we're spending so much money is trying to get solar to come closer to acting like nuclear. Your use of "peaking" is deceptive, since that's really a demand-side term... and solar only meets that peaking load at certain times of year.