Vitaliy wrote:

> If solar power was economically feasible, we should see it account for a
> significant percentage of at least some countries' energy needs, right?

Since when does a traditional economic balance include all costs? Just
because the costs someone has to pay out of his own pocket are smaller
doesn't mean that the overall cost are really smaller. You need to come up
with something better than that. Try figuring in the cost of maintaining
and securing a waste site for just a thousand years and see where the
economics are. 

> Alas, it isn't so, despite the government subsidies.

And try to see where nuclear energy would be without government subsidies.
Probably non-existing.

Gerhard

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