The parts of a boat have funny names to a landsman. Many of the names go back hundreds of years and their origins are often lost. Some make sense only if you know something of sailing ship construction in the 16th century.
Cheap dreams, expensive realities. In the dawn of the nuclear era, cost was expected to be one of the technology's advantages, not one of its drawbacks. The first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, predicted in a 1954 speech that nuclear power would someday make electricity âtoo cheap to meter.â.
Right now, renewable energy is actually already cheaper than coal and nuclear power at every step. A unit of electricity from Eskomâs new coal plants cost about R0,80/kWh, from nuclear R1,00/kWh while a unit of electricity from solar photovoltaic cost R0,80/kWh and from wind only R0,60/kWh. Source.