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The whole solar panel industry would not have existed without endless subsidies. That is not literally true. Commercial solar panels for both remote-area powe
by caf 10y ago
The whole solar panel industry would not have existed without endless subsidies.
That is not literally true. Commercial solar panels for both remote-area power and spacecraft existed before subsidies aimed at large-scale generation.
On the other hand, the nuclear power industry certainly wouldn't have existed without entirely state-funded, military nuclear programs.
- jimnotgym 10y agoI also feel we have never quite get to the true cost of nuclear. In the UK there are obsolete nuclear stations where nothing much is happening to decommission them, and they are already billions over budget in their decommissioning. I have begun to feel that it is the ultimate in cheap power now, and the next generation can pick up the cost.