Dumb ass fundie anti-nukes have been raising stupid points to obstruct the world's largest climate change gas free form of energy for several decades now.
This artificial constraint, fostered by pathetic
ignorance, has not prevented nuclear power from becoming the world's largest, by far, form of climate change gas free energy. Thus reactor suppliers have not participated in as many bidding contests as they would have done in a
rational world.
Frankly I don't think Canada should bid competitively on these reactors. I believe that they should simply order the AECL reactor, since heavy water technology is a key technology for slowing the climate change abyss.
If Canada builds
one reactor of course, they will immediately outstrip the entire supply of new solar energy on the planet, and this is true no matter how much public subsidy money is shoveled at the solar industry, which cannot, on the entire planet add as much capacity as a single gas plant, never mind a nuclear plant.
I believe in strong nuclear subsidies, TVA style. The CANDU-3 is Canadian technology, excellent technology allowing for on line fueling and thorium based flux flattening fuel that will make the CANDU in effect have a breeding ratio greater than one. This is a key to humanity's future.
I don't believe in a level playing field for all reactors. In fact, I favor outright government purchase of nuclear power plants on an emergency basis by governments around the world. I note that in dollars per exajoule, nuclear energy is by far, the cheapest form of energy on the planet and thus will afford citizens the greatest return on their tax dollars.
But, all that aside, from the number of dumb fundie specious objections from the anti-nuke cult, the anti-nuke fundie dickheads seem to not believe
themselves. For almost three decades, beginning with the dumb fundie greenwasher Amory Lovins, the anti-nuke community has been predicting that nuclear power would
go away because - get this for dumb fundie religious thinking -
economic reasons.
For instance, here is the words of the dumb fundie car culture Walmart owned anti-nuke fundie Amory Lovins from 1980:
In fact, the global nuclear power enterprise is rapidly disappearing. De facto moratoria on reactor ordering exist today in the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, and probably the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. Nuclear power has been indefinitely deferred or abandoned in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iran, China, Australia and New Zealand. Nuclear power elsewhere is in grave difficulties. Only in centrally planned economies, notably France and the U.S.S.R., is bureaucratic power sufficient to override, if not overcome, economic facts.
Now in science one does
predictions and in religion one asserts dogma. Given that Sam's Club Amory wrote this in
1980 (Lovins, Lovins and Ross,
Foreign Affairs Summer 1980 page 1138) one wonders why 27 years later, dumb fundie anti-nukes find it still necessary to assert this bit of delusional perception about nuclear economics.
Over at another website where I write, I was discussing the "death of nuclear power" with a guy who works at the South Texas nuclear plant. He told me that STP just produced
continuous power at 1.75 cents per kwh, busbar.
Now, I recognize that there are a lot of dumb fundie anti-nukes who not only can't understand shit about science, or for that matter, economics, but the economic implications are clear.
One wonders, of course, why dumb shit fundie anti-nukes who were only a few years ago announcing that another nuclear plant would never be built anywhere have so wedgies up their pathetic little butts about new nuclear construction.
One would think that they'd all go over to their pal's mom's estate, get loaded under the dining room table with Mom's "Coffee Brandy," and post dumb smileys on the internet that prove once and for all, that nuclear power is dead.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xlsIn the meantime, little dumb ass fundie anti-nukes will continue to tout articles dragged around by equally illiterate reporters.
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