Redondo Beach, CA

Friday, March 18, 2011

Nuclear versus solar! Which makes more sense?

Construction cost of a nuclear reactor: $ 5 billion. Total life-time costs (incl. decommissioning, nuclear waste storage, liability and more) is about $ 20 billion.

So that everybody will agree, let's stay on the very conservative side and say it is $ 10 Billion.

Offer people (on top of existing incentives) $ 10,000 each for installing a 3 KW solar (PV) system on their roofs. What a deal! Nobody could refuse this!

This would result in at least 1,000,000 homes with a rooftop PV system.

Since each one is 3 KW: Total 3,000 Megawatt (quite a bit more than what a nuclear reactor would produce, which is around 1,100 MW). Including down-times (at the San Onofre reactor this was as high as 30%), we are probably closer to 800 MW.

Since PV systems are about 0.3 effective, this would still result in at least 1,000 MW. However, in reality - because of the actual number of Kwh produced - total electricity production would be larger; so, we are roughly back up to 1,500 MW; almost twice as much what a nuclear reactor produces.

So, as the great German scientist Albert Einstein always insisted: "everything is relative!"

No radioactive garbage (tremendous cost savings), no administrative, no employee costs, no decommissioning costs, no EXPENSIVE liability insurance, etc. - - - and no monthly electricity bills for one million houses!

Pushing the numbers a little bit, this could be as high as 2 million houses.

Makes sense? What do YOU think?

WE DID A SURVEY, asking people at what $$ incentive level (in addition to presently given incentives) they would definitely be willing to install a 3 kw PV system on their houses. THE ANSWER: $ 5,000

$ 10 billion divided by 5,000 = 2 million.

So, still staying on the conservative side, the number of rooftops that we would/could cover with a photovoltaic, electricity producing, system (each 3 kw, large enough so that there would be no more major electricity bills) is at least 2 million WHILE PRODUCING FOUR TIMES THE ELECTRICITY ONE NUCLEAR REACTOR WOULD PRODUCE!

What an effectiveness!

Keep in mind that we used a VERY conservative number for the lifetime cost of a nuclear reactor, namely $ 10 billion. Several experts are calculating the cost at $ 20+ billion. A major reason: cheap fuel for nuclear reactors, from decommissioning nuclear weapons (mostly from Russia) will soon be depleted and then costs for nuclear fuel will rise by about 1,300%.

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Dr. Hans Kugler, PhD

President

International Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine

Redondo Beach, CA

310-540-0564