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Interesting how the article concludes that nuclear costs will be several times higher than those currently in France. What the article failed to mention is that CSP is not so cheap if you have to duplicate it at the end of long transmission lines to ensure catching the sun somewhere. Since there will be whole weeks of rain and cloud there will need to be 100% backup capacity with fixed costs even if that backup is idle.
The 'latest' will be when a CSP plant produces enough cheap continuous power so that a large coal plant can be dynamited.
Yeah - I'm sure the Simpson and Mojave deserts get weeks of rain at a time - show me how many times that happened in the last century.
You can complain we need to extend the grid (to reach the deserts) or you can complain about rain (in locations where the grid already reaches). You can't have it both ways.
Of course, you'll struggle to get nuclear power plants built in these wet places at all - because the residents won't want them where they live.
The desert doesn't have this problem.