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This is because Finland has a population of 5.5M Luxembourg has 1/7th the population and could run off ONE of these. The USA has 60x the population so would n

• chii 5y ago
  420 isn't an insurmountably large a number - it's 8.4 per state (lets' round it up to 10 for redundency). at an average cost of $10 billion per plant, that's 4.2 trillion dollars. I think the US has spent more than that on the iraq war and the afganistan war - 8 trillion according to https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar - which could've paid for these 420 plants twice over.
  • ncmncm 5y ago
    Or, could build out solar, wind, and storage, leaving plenty over for universal health care, university education, clean drinking water and breathing air, mass transit projects, and even fixing bridges. But US decided to invade Iraq and Afghanistan instead of any of those.
    • acchow 5y ago
      At least we've established a stable Afghanistan for generations /s