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So, so, so dumb. Dumb decision. You should subsidise renewables and tax all others for the externalities.

• abtinf 8y ago
  What are the externalities of the renewables?
  • newnewpdro 8y ago
    Perhaps in fairness it's best to worry about that when it's too late, considering non-renewables have enjoyed that luxury.
  • AstralStorm 8y ago
    Space usage and maintenance. Modifications of electric grid. Rare metal use. Compared to health and environmental damage done by mining, gas and oil prospecting, it's cheap, but not as cheap as nuclear.
    • sabertoothed 8y ago
      What makes you think nuclear has less severe externalities? And I am not even including in my considerations that countries have totally mismanaged the storage in the past (e.g. UK dumping it into the ocean, Germany dumping it into an old mine etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...