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If you're implying nuclear power is just a pork barrel scam to milk the tax base money and jobs, then I am really starting to understand why we, as Americans, m
by nipponese 6y ago
If you're implying nuclear power is just a pork barrel scam to milk the tax base money and jobs, then I am really starting to understand why we, as Americans, may never meaningfully tackle climate change. Even Joe Biden is pitching conversion to solar as a jobs-creation initiative.
- ncmncm 6y agoNo, it's not just a pork barrel scam. It's the pork barrel scam all other pork barrel scams wish they could be, the ur-scam. It has a superficially plausible premise that continues to fool a lot of people, a tie-in to the military-industrial complex, it always involves insane amounts of capital expenditure, takes years and years of construction before anything comes out, and costs way more than everything else. Orbital solar power might rival it someday. Fusion is trying; watch out, once they hit break-even. If the money spent on fusion projects had been put into solar, we would have had solar cheaper than coal 20 years ago.