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Whereas solar panels and wind energy of course have no lobby whatsoever and are only being promoted by idealistic, well meaning activists that can be trusted 10

• jacquesm 5y ago
  This is attempting to put the solar and wind lobby on equal footing with the nuclear lobby: it isn't even close.
  • kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
    Why not? I mean, maybe not, but what makes you so sure? The solar and wind lobby stands to make trillions of dollars from government spending, but we are supposed to think they don't do any lobbying? Only the nuclear industry is in it for the money?
    • jacquesm 5y ago
      > I mean, maybe not, but what makes you so sure? Maybe it is the decade-and-a-half that I've been studying the energy situation in some detail? The nuclear industry has a typical installed unit cost of $25B or thereabouts (that's usually not the original estimate or even close to that). A typical windpark is a fraction of that and solar deployments are much smaller as well. Besides that the market for solar and windpower is much more fragmented, with nuclear there are only very few parties on the supply side.
      • kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
        "Maybe it is the decade-and-a-half that I've been studying the energy situation in some detail?" OK but you can not expect everybody else to take your personal experience at face value. The average windpark may be smaller, but companies producing panels and rotators presumably are quite big. A lot of money has already been invested by governments, and much, much more is to come. I don't think the individual costs of nuclear power plants proves anything one way or another.