The EIA's official energy statistics for the US Government puts costs, at 2007 valued dollars, at: Wind Power - 11.55 cents per kWh (not including the cost of needed energy storage systems); Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) Power - 3.0 cents per kWh.

From all of that spare money sloshing about which would have been wasted on those useless wind turbines, can't just one forward-thinking fund manager throw the £300 million pittance of a subsidy, needed to kick-start a UK LFTR programme, at Rolls-Royce and we can have pre-production prototypes in 5 years and 100 MW units rolling off factory production lines in 10 years. Capable of being produced at 1 per day, transportable on flat-bed trucks, fitting inside a medium-sized supermarket building and requiring little, if any, infrastructure, we could replace all of the UK's coal fired power stations in a year or two. Emitting no greenhouse gasses, LFTRs are, by far, the quickest and cheapest method of meeting our carbon reduction targets. LFTRs can also solve our long-term nuclear 'waste' problem, since they can 'burn' all of that material as fuel, whilst creating only minute quantities of 'waste' which decays to background radiation levels in 300 years (easily and cheaply stored). The high temperature/high quality waste heat, produced by the gas turbine generator plant, can be used to desalinate water, as industrial process heat or for district heating; also, via a hydrogen-economy, the waste heat and/or night-time electricity can be used to produce carbon-neutral synthetic fuels and ammonia feedstock for fertilisers. And, since the thorium fuel comes from a virtually inexhaustible resource, LFTRs do NOW, what nuclear fusion promises to do in 50 years time.

See: LFTRs to Power the Planet
( http://lftrsuk.blogspot.com/ ).