1) You're looking the operating cost of an established nuclear...

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Originally posted by Furpo2: ↑

I pay 30c KWH; nuclear retail 10c KWH in US.

Nuclear far cheaper than ruinables

The 30c is Ergon in Cairns (black coal) and Red Energy (mix, coal, hydro, wind solar)
on Mornington Peninsula.

https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/twiggy-forrests-cautionary-tale-flailing-green-hydrogen-project-rips-a-hole-in-labors-plan-to-turn-australia-into-a-clean-energy-superpower/news-story/1b2639de979eff226111cc3cff8dd138

In October 2022, Chris Bowen lobbed a lazy $13.7 million at a company that planned to build a giant hydrogen production plant in Brisbane.
The Energy Minister said building the 500MW Gibson Island electrolyser was “critical” to turning Australia into a green energy superpower, exporting clean hydrogen and ammonia to the world.
The electrolyser will be the largest built to date, feeding renewable hydrogen directly into the first fully decarbonised ammonia facility.
Eighteen months later, the Gibson Island project has fallen in a heap.

Arizona's Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is the second largest power plant in the USA, with a capacity of 3.9 GW.
It has run without incident since 1986 at Tonopah, 75km south of Pheonix.
The operating cost, including fuel and maintenance, was estimated to be 4.3 US cents in 2015.
“Twiggy” Forrest told the National Press Club in February that the Coalition’s push for nuclear energy was “bulldust” and a “new lie”.Yet Forrest’s most promising investment in green hydrogen will be fuelled in part at least by nuclear. Go figure.

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1) You're looking the operating cost of an established nuclear plant which has run for decades - long enough to lower costs because it's reached ROI, and ignoring the fact that in Australia we haven't built a Nuclear plant yet.

2) You're looking at a 3.9GW plant which implies economies of scale which the US has and that Qld need is too distributed for. You think you're getting a 3.9GW Nuke plant up near Cairns? I don't know off the top of my head, but I'd be surprised if the coal station feeding Cairns is more than a couple of hundred MW.
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