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New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power (www.pv-magazine.com)

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New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power::In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy strategies of the United States and certain European countries.

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[-] rev@ihax0r.com 16 points 1 year ago

If we required the recycling cost to be covered in the purchase of solar cells and wind mill blades would this still be true.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

What’s cheaper to recycle, fiberglass windmills or radioactive waste?

[-] scv@discuss.online 13 points 1 year ago

I did not know the answer so I looked it up. Fiberglass is hard to recycle and it isn't done much. A lot of nuclear "waste" is actually spent fuel which can be reprocessed and used again.

Obviously it would be better to improve recycling of fiberglass but as it stands today, nuclear waste might be recycled more often than fiberglass...

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Nuclear waste is a hell of a lot more expensive to process than fiberglass, which is why I pay a "nuclear decommissioning" every month on my electric bill.

[-] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

A hell of a lot more expensive? Give me that in $ per kw/hr.

[-] rev@ihax0r.com 4 points 1 year ago

But disposal/storage of waste is baked in to the cost of nuclear. The economics of solar and wind don’t include those which is why we have windmill trash heaps

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Decades of surcharges for nuclear decommissioning show that’s not true.

[-] rev@ihax0r.com 2 points 1 year ago

I was talking about the starting of new projects

[-] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fiberglass is a bitch and it's used in far greater quantities.

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

You are right, solar panels in which lead is used in manufacturing are definitively easiest and cheapest to recycle.

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