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If you essentially stop any technology progress for 40 years in one technology, other technologies might catuch up. But there is a MASSIVE amount of potential
by panick21_ 4y ago
If you essentially stop any technology progress for 40 years in one technology, other technologies might catuch up.
But there is a MASSIVE amount of potential for nuclear to be cheaper and better.
People in 2000~ were more then happy to predict massive improvement in cost for renewables if money was invested but absolutely denied that the same could happen with nuclear.
Had the same amount been invested in nuclear, prices there could also have changed.
- adrianN 4y agoWe don't have another twenty years to wait for nuclear costs to maybe come down and then another twenty years to build enough cheap nuclear to become carbon neutral. Renewables are cheap today and can be built much faster than nuclear.
- panick21_ 4y agoEven if the first generation is not cost effective, neither was the first generation of wind and solar. However we have 28 years until 2050 and for really deep carbonation having advanced nuclear would be really awesome. Not to mention other benefits like radio isotopes, medical isotopes, rational solution to the removal of the current waste, a backup option in case a volcano disrupts solar on a large scale and so on. We are not doomed just because not every single $ of spending is going into more solar panels.