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My father always joked about the statements they made when they opened the first fission power plants, "Energy that's too cheap to meter!"
by qingcharles 2y ago
My father always joked about the statements they made when they opened the first fission power plants, "Energy that's too cheap to meter!"
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThey weren't unreasonable - they just didn't predict the whole world going collectively insane after Chernobyl, and choosing to pay for being slowly suffocated and cooked to death instead.
- sevensor 2y agoMy house, not too far from Three Mile Island, was built between its commissioning and the incident with reactor 2. As a result, its builders installed the most insane heating system known to man: resistive heating in the ceiling. Crank it all you want, your feet will still be cold. It’s a system that could only possibly be acceptable if electricity doesn’t cost anything.