Re: where's the cheapest electricity?

On Sep 17, 12:37 pm, Spehro Pefhany
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:28:07 -0700, Richard Henry





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On Sep 17, 10:25 am, Spehro Pefhany
<speffS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:14:26 GMT, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian

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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:59:34 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:18:03 +0100, the renowned Eeyore
PhattyMo wrote:
mrdarr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I heard Google moved to Washington State for the cheap hydropower
there.

That raises a question - where is the cheapest electricity available,
worldwide? Is anything close to or less than 5 cents / kw-hr
available?

We use the "time of use" schedule that PGE can set you up with.
(Portland,Oregon)
0.03c/0.06c/0.09c (last I checked) depending on what time of day or
night it is. Sundays are 0.03c all day.

Awesome. I'd consider that to be almost free energy.

The standard tariff here in the UK is about 8-9p (16-18c US) per kWh.

Supposedly the cheapest electricity is nuclear at around 1.8 cents/kWh
wholesale. Naturally, gas and oil fired is considerably more
expensive. Hydroelectric is probably cheaper but it's pretty much all
tapped out, even in places like Iran and China, which is why they
want/are building lots of nuclear plants.

Isn't it ironic that the cheapest source of peaceful power is also the
cheapest source of weapons of mass destruction?

The ONLY (proven) source of WMD so far. And they've only been used
twice. Chemical weapons are quite cheap but they are ineffective.
Biological weapons have been ineffective in the past, but who knows
what Russia and the US have cooked up in the labs (for "defense")?

CW is ineffective? One shudders to think what you would consider to
be effective.

Conventional munitions and ammunition have killed upwards of a million
Iraqis so far, and two million Vietnamese. That's pretty effective.

True, but avoiding the question. What makes CW "ineffective"?

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