Is solar really four times the cost of nuclear? No, but…

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17. You need to do some homework.

• The nuclear plant that you describe generates about three thousand times more power than one wind turbine.
• Wind's capacity factor is about 30% - meaning it generates power about 1/3 of the time. Nuclear's is about 80%, and much of that can be planned ahead of time.
• While not cheaper than onshore wind, nuclear is 60% cheaper than offshore wind.
• Wind requires natural gas backup plants, so it is not by any stretch of the imagination "carbon-free".
• Wind is "going up like hotcakes" because of exhorbitant subsidies (when the subsidies are withdrawn, the wind market's bottom falls out).

Those are the main ones, most of the rest is wrong but I don't have the patience. Here are the real costs for energy generation:

http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm