[bobbybabylon]

Please. We have known why this is the case (in the West) for decades.

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter9.html

[pydry]

This was certainly true in 1990 when it was published.

[bobbybabylon]

Sadly, the facts don't seem to have changed that much.

[pydry]

It switched from coal in 1990 to natgas and now renewables taking market share. Nuclear is still not cost competitive without lavish subsidy injections though, no. Never was, probably never will be.