TECHNOLOGICAL BARGAIN

Nuclear News 37, p 70 (July 1994) reports that the lowest cost nuclear producer of electricity in 1993 was Commonwealth Edison's Braidwood station which produced power at 1.29 cents/KWh. Average for nuclear power in the United States was 2.15 cents/KWh. Here in Southern Oregon we pay a delivered price of 5.37 cents/KWh.

One KWh is the amount of energy required to lift 370 sacks each weighing 110 pounds to a height of 65 feet. (See Siemens Stand-punkt, July 1994 p 38 available from Siemens AG, KWU Ref PK31, Postfach 32 20, 91050 Erlangen, Germany or ask any home schooled 16 year old. The one here checked this in under two minutes including time for looking up the constants.) Can any of the anti-technology enviros be hired to carry 300 100-pound sacks of chicken manure up 6 flights of stairs for 5 cents?