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The total committed expediture to date on German solar subsidies has a present cash value of 60 billion + euros. If spent on atomic power, that is 20 EPR's, or some 32 gigawatts of carbon free electricity capacity.
This would produce 262800 gigawatthours of electricity per year. Say. That is an interesting number. Where have I heard it before? Oh right, that is Germany's current production of electricty per annum from coal...
by Thomas on Tue Apr 27th, 2010 at 04:04:16 PM EST
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and note, that would still not be a subsidy. That would be a 60 billion euro investment. (Altough, selling power from that much nuclear capacity that had been paid for up front would probably do sickly amusing things to the electricity market, so return might not be so good..)
by Thomas on Tue Apr 27th, 2010 at 04:10:58 PM EST
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