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>Nuclear energy is so economically inefficient They're only economically inefficient when you ignore the costs of burning fossil fuels. Would you rather spend
by tw04 3y ago
>Nuclear energy is so economically inefficient
They're only economically inefficient when you ignore the costs of burning fossil fuels. Would you rather spend a couple (tens of) billion on a nuclear power plant, or face global starvation?
Everything looks expensive when you externalize the cost of status quo.
- bxhdndnjdbj 3y ago[flagged]
- kagakuninja 3y agoThey are much more expensive than renewables, which is why the corporations don't want to build them.
- cyberax 3y agoRenewables are cheap only if you don't care about reliability.
- ajmurmann 3y agoPart of the high price of nuclear comes from pricing in all potential negative externalities upfront. Production of solar cells requires a lot of energy and 80% of them are made in China where most energy comes from brown coal. If we priced that negative externality into the solar cells the numbers would look a lot different. Battery storage has similar problems.