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Originally Posted by renormalised
Building one of these powerplants to the size mentioned will force up energy costs...dramatically. People will only change so much before they start to complain, in some cases rather bitterly. Push people too far and see what happens.
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And yet politics aside the simple fact, which you can't deny, is that energy costs will rise in the future.
Once again I will refer to the car fuel scenario as an example of what will happen. Ethanol only becomes a viable option to use as a renewable fuel once the price of oil goes past a certain point, and it becomes cheaper to make car fuel out of sugar. The same goes for diesel. This price point for fuel changes because once the demand is shifted back to grown fuel it forces the demand & hence price up, but the simple fact is that over time demand has grown for plant based fuel as oil prices have risen.
The same will happen with the fuels for electricity production. Slowly over time, prices will rise, partially driven by outcomes of meetings like Kyoto and Copenhagen and the like, and there will be a shift where alternate means of green electricity production become "less expensive" when compared to coal based production. It is an undeniable fact.