It seems like there's a segment of the tech crowd forever living in some 1950s sci-fi fantasy. There must be something about big hairy difficult-to-control tech

It seems like there's a segment of the tech crowd forever living in some 1950s sci-fi fantasy. There must be something about big hairy difficult-to-control technology that has an emotional appeal to a certain segment. Meanwhile, in the real world, wind and especially solar power, as well as battery technology, are close to being cost-competitive with even the cheapest power sources (i. e. coal and gas). I know it still stings how the general public just insisted on their black swans or whatever, and didn't quite like the idea of radiation as much as you do. But the safety argument has long become irrelevant. Nuclear power has lost on economic terms now, and it has absolutely no chance of catching up with renewables in the one or two decades until those become so cheap as to render that fight irrelevant, too.