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I also haven't really seen anyone discuss the cost of nuclear in human labor costs. No matter what method or design you use you still need educated workers to b
by tomatotomato37 6y ago
I also haven't really seen anyone discuss the cost of nuclear in human labor costs. No matter what method or design you use you still need educated workers to babysit both the reactor and the standard turbine infrastructure, whose salary dwarfs whatever costs come from fuel or safety countermeasures.
In contrast, solar and wind tend to be very manpower efficient due to the logistical pain of maintaining something spread over 10 sq. miles forcing investments in reliability and autonomy.
Edit: Messed up wording
- delecti 6y agoI'm not quite sure I follow. Doesn't the "logistical pain to maintain something spread over 10 sq. miles" have a human labor cost too?
- tomatotomato37 6y agoI meant to imply that the pain of such caused those technologies to invest in autonomy to mitigate needless human labor, but I lost the point when revising the comment. I'll fix it.
- formercoder 6y agoLabor costs have to be figured into $/KwH by convention right? They’re not zero for solar.