Comments on: TVA: worth the price?

By: RuslanDautov

RuslanDautov — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:10:42 +0000

I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:41:18 +0000

“It seems to have evened up “except where there is direct access to low-cost fossil fuels.”

Other than a link to an organization that is in the business of promoting nuclear power, do you have any evidence for this assertion?

Here is the argument against nuclear (beyond the fact that no private money will invest without government subsidies):

http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid467.php

By: girlfriend

girlfriend — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:35:39 +0000

When the Public Utilities Commission was the watchdog of public utilities and all raises in rates and salaries had to be jusitifed and approved by them this type of gross misuse of funds did not happen.

By: Netmom

Netmom — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:09:15 +0000

Maybe they didn’t in 2007; as of August 2008, it seems to have evened up “except where there is direct access to low-cost fossil fuels.”
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf02.html

The concept of distributed micro-power generation is an interesting one, and one that I plan to keep up with. If I can power my home on my own and sell back any spare kilowatts, that’s pretty cool.

It isn’t going to do much for industry, though. Someone still has to supply peak demand amounts to keep the factories going… and TVA’s mammoth increase is putting their continued presence in our state at risk.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:53:36 +0000

Yeah, the only problem is that the only way nuclear power is profitable is with government mandates and subsidies. As a free-market alternative, the numbers just don’t add up.

http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-nuclear_debate.html