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by epistasis 3244 days ago
>Even with that, prices has stabilised at a very high level. Yes, there is low-hanging fruit in the US, that is correct, but the total potential (miles of coast) is very limited.

Not quite, offshore wind construction is improving, perhaps because they are focusing on improving that rather than just repurposing oil tech.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/14/new-record-fo...

>That's going to be true (or solved) for any large, complex project, whether wind, solar or nuclear.

Wind and solar are far far far less complex than nuclear, and do not have similar cost overruns.