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I mean, that's like 3-400M a demonstration. It's not like other energy demonstration projects are historically a lot cheaper. TerraPower and X-Scale are getting
by bobthepanda 5y ago
I mean, that's like 3-400M a demonstration. It's not like other energy demonstration projects are historically a lot cheaper. TerraPower and X-Scale are getting $3.2B for two nuclear demonstrations. https://www.heraldnet.com/business/terrapower-plans-to-build-demo-nuclear-reactor-in-wyoming/ https://www.heraldnet.com/business/terrapower-plans-to-build...
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To be quite clear, I think carbon capture is a scam. That being said, talking about energy investment demonstration projects, this doesn't seem totally out of whack for what projects generally cost; we should attack projects based on the merits, but the particular thing in the headline is not actually crazy. The point of demonstrations is to figure out if things work, and so they should be expected to have failures; what would be stupid is if we kept going.
- vidarh 5y agoIt's not even that. It was 1.1bn for 11 projects of which only 3 were continued until completion. The rest being shut down because earlier parts of the projects showed there was little chance of success. The headline is wildly misleading.