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They are much more expensive than renewables, which is why the corporations don't want to build them.
by kagakuninja 3y ago
They 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.