{"id":15085,"date":"2011-02-24T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2011\/02\/union-of-concerned-scientists-bias-and.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:07:26","slug":"union-of-concerned-scientists-bias-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2011\/02\/union-of-concerned-scientists-bias-and.html","title":{"rendered":"Union of Concerned Scientists Bias and look at nuclear subsidies but not at other energy for context"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Union of Concerned Scientists analyze the economic subsidies that nuclear power gets but implies that this is somehow unique<\/a><\/p>\n

The Energy Information Administration shows that all energy gets subsidies and looks at that in comparison to the amount of energy generated.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSource – subsidy and support in dollars per megawatt-hour (mills per kilowatt-hour)<\/p>\n

Subsidy and Support per\n                      Unit of Production\n                      (dollars\/megawatthour) as of 2007\n\nNuclear                  1.59\nCoal                     0.44  (does not include externalities like air pollution  \n                                or acid rain damage)\nRefined coal            29.81\nNatural gas              0.25\nBiomass (and biofuels)   0.89\nGeothermal               0.92\nHydroelectric            0.67\nSolar                   24.34\nWind                    23.37\nLandfill Gas             1.37\nMunicipal Solid Waste    0.13\nRenewables (average)     2.80  (Hydro is making it better)\nTotal (average)          1.65\n<\/pre>\n
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Other energy subsidy analysis<\/a><\/p>\n
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They also do not look at the comprehensive view of safety (public risk) such as deaths per terawatt hour<\/A><\/p>\n
Coal \u2013 world average               161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)\nCoal \u2013 China                       278\nCoal \u2013 USA                         15\nOil                                36  (36% of world energy)\nNatural Gas                         4  (21% of world energy)\nBiofuel\/Biomass                    12\nPeat                               12\nSolar (rooftop)                     0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)\nWind                                0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)\nHydro                               0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)\nHydro - world including Banqiao)    1.4 (about 2500 TWh\/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)\nNuclear                             0.04 (5.9% of world energy)\n<\/pre>\n
\nThe way they wrote their article and study the implication is that nuclear energy is alone in getting subsidies and alone with any safety issues. The implication might also be if not alone at least far worse than the other energy. <\/p>\n
This is wrong. Nuclear is among the safest energy sources. Nuclear gets less subsidy than most of the other energy sources per the amount of energy generated.<\/p>
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In terms of overall money, oil gets far more of the $550 billion in energy subsidies in 2008 worldwide.<\/p>\n
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The Union of Concerned Scientists analyze the economic subsidies that nuclear power gets but implies that this is somehow unique The Energy Information Administration shows that all energy gets subsidies and looks at that in comparison to the amount of energy generated. Source – subsidy and support in dollars per megawatt-hour (mills per kilowatt-hour) Subsidy … <\/p>\n
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