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When you say "huge amounts", how huge? Like "x times the cost of Hinkley Point C"? I'm only aware of fairly cheap failures so far, but I admit I haven't really

• doingtheiroming 3y ago
  See Private Eyes passim. Joking aside, tidal has been a subsidy money pit that has attracted chancers and grifters for a long time. That’s not to say there weren’t honest projects (the link I posted being a good example) but nuclear is a proven, well understood tech that doesn’t need to be developed. We know how to do it. Hinkley C is far too expensive for many reasons but it will generate steady power for many decades once built. Tidal is basically a non-starter. A tech that has been not been commercialised, that offers only low density power generation and which will inevitably be maintenance heavy. It’s a non starter.
  • Arnt 3y ago
    To me that sounds like a handwavy rephrasing of "don't bother about numbers or data, just trust my authority, I know these things."