From: "Don Libby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:55 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 2666] Re: Nuclear Pork - Enough is Enough


>
>>From: Jim Torson
>>Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
>>To: [email protected]
>>Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 12:17 PM
>>Subject: [Global Change: 2665] Nuclear Pork - Enough is Enough
>>
>>From Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog...
>>http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/09/nuclear-subsidies-enough-is-enough/
>
> We should invest in all such technologies of course, especially the most
> cost-effective technologies. Of all available low-emission electric power
> production technologies, IPCC finds nuclear has the highest mitigation
> potential at least cost by 2030 (Table 4.19, p300, WGIII, Fourth 
> Assessment
> Report: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.htm).
>

Also of interest, Table 35, p106 in EIA "Federal Financial Interventions and 
Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007" at 
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/subsidy2/

Federal subsidy per kWh:

nuclear: $1.59
wind:    $23.37
solar:    $24.34

Total subsidy (million dollars):

coal:            $3,010
nuclear:        $1,267
renewables:  $1,008

-dl 



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