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Particularly not when you consider waste post-processing and final storage (which normally faces substantial cost overruns).
The cost is very small, even with the overengineered solutions developed, and can be taken from cashflow. Cost is about 0.1 cents per kWh over the lifetime of the plant.

And it is not altogether self-evident that current storage solutions can be scaled up arbitrarily without hitting a point of escalating costs, as they are every bit as dependent on limited geological resources as oil extraction is.
Not in the slightest. Good enough bedrock is by no means rare. They are limited in the same way the global supply of gravel is finite.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Jan 13th, 2010 at 04:28:22 PM EST
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€ 1/MWh is still a 3 % increase in total cost, according to the above figure. And something on the order of a 30 % increase in the variable cost, which goes from being on the order of 10 % to being on the order of 13 %.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jan 13th, 2010 at 05:35:44 PM EST
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