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Wasn’t there news not long ago that China has been building solar power (peak capacity) with an equivalent power of five nuclear power plants per week? Even acc
by _Microft 2y ago
Wasn’t there news not long ago that China has been building solar power (peak capacity) with an equivalent power of five nuclear power plants per week? Even accounting for much lower cumulative output, this is far more than they have in the pipeline for nuclear power.
- adrianN 2y agoMost countries investing in nuclear do so in part to fund a domestic nuclear industry so that they can at least partly privatize the cost of a nuclear arms program. Nuclear is too expensive to be competitive without governmental support.
- obscurette 2y agoChina is building whatever energy sources it can. In amount it can. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...