by
amazngdrx
on Sat 16 Jul 2005 09:37 AM CDT
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15822495%255E1702,00.html
"Nuclear power stations using high-grade uranium ores would have to run for seven to 10 years before they created enough power to cancel out the energy required to establish them."
"Wind power takes just three to six months to do the same."
Even if electric power from these respective sources were used exclusively in the process of creating new wind and nuke power installations; electric powered mining, transportation, processing, and construction of wind mills and nuclear power plants, wind still wins.
Wind consumes a fraction of the energy of nukes for construction, maintenance, and has no fuel, coming in at a bottonline cost of 2 cents per kwh and still dropping due to mass production and installation efficiencies.
The current cost of nuclear power is 10 cents per kwh and rapidly rising due to the hidden cost of nuclear waste disposal, storage, and subsequent leaking into the environment.
This analysis leaves out the added greenhouse gas and ozone destroying compounds released during nuclear fuel processing.