You can't run cars with power that comes directly through the power line.
You ignore the running cost of the nuclear reactors. You don't price risk from blowups and you don't price long term storage costs. Risk from peak uranium http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414 is also unpriced.
If the word "average" would be meaningful in this context than you would simply compare solar cell productivity + transmission line losses to nuclear plant costs + transmission line losses.
Of course you can do simply arithmetic but that doesn't mean that you are right when it's not clear that you are using the right numbers.
You can't run cars with power that comes directly through the power line.
No, but you can power people's homes, businesses, and industry. Currently we're burning ungodly huge amounts of coal to do that. Just because a green energy source isn't the final solution to all energy needs is not a point against it.
You ignore the running cost of the nuclear reactors.
I was addressing the argument, often put forward, that the up-front costs of nukes are much higher per-kilowatt than other green energy sources. The operations and maintenance costs of nuclear en...
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