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It amuses me to wonder what an entity with the value of one of the current market behemoths could accomplish if only they put a % or ten of their capitalisation

• tehjoker 6y ago
  Kind of an amusing reference given the name of one of the prominent anti-nuclear (weapons) organizations: https://www.ploughshares.org/ https://www.ploughshares.org/
• Krasnol 6y ago
  We know what they could accomplished because billions has been sunk into nuclear research in the last DECADES. Decades which we could have spend that money on renewables and storage a technology already so cheap that it makes nuclear utterly pointless. A technology which would have made the whole discussion obsolete and in fact: it is obsolete today. The time scale in which "nuclear" is researched, approved or build is being counted in decades. We don't have decades so why waste a single $ on it?? It makes no sense at all.
  • epistasis 6y ago
    I think you're right, and that it's very clear that research funds have been systematically misinvested for the past 40 years. IMHO it's because there has been a false belief that energy consumption is tied by a constant factor to GDP. We knew this was BS even back in the 1970s, but perpetuating that economic falsehood was extremely beneficial to entrenched energy interests and lobbyists. If we were 15-25 years ahead of where we are now, because we provided the same tax benefits to solar and wind investors in the 80s that we give to small-time oil investors to this day... the entire world would be so much better positioned.