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Right, but onshore wind is massively cheaper. Also, renewables can be built out incrementally and start generating very quickly, so your ROI starts almost imme
by dflock 9y ago
Right, but onshore wind is massively cheaper.
Also, renewables can be built out incrementally and start generating very quickly, so your ROI starts almost immediately.
With nuclear you're looking at a ~10 billion upfront investment, that doesn't start generating for at least a decade.
In addition to this, costs for renewables are falling, while costs for nuclear are not.
- ageofwant 9y ago95% of that cost is due to compliance requirements. 98% of those compliance requirements are 100% bs. If the same requirements were asked of new coal or gas built it would exceed that of a nuclear plant. The average coal plant emits more radiation in a month than the average nuclear plant during its entire operational lifespan. And billions of tons of CO2 for extra planet-killing power.