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Would be interesting to see a comparison between a perceived prohibitively expensive carbon-free alternative, and the use of carbon capture in order to offset t

• worldsayshi 5y ago
  > Like, would a coal power plant combined with carbon capture be more economical viable than a nuclear plant? Yeah it's an interesting line of thought but is it really possible to ask that? If you scale up one technology you will hopefully find incremental improvements that will turn that initial calculation on its head. My guess is that any such calculation would be so speculative it wouldn't give you any actionable information. So my guess is that the best we can do is try scaling up all possibilities until we have a clear winner? (Although in your example nuclear should already be scaled up enough to give us some idea.)