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Nuclear was never an option 1) cost is too high compared to other options 2) corpos can’t be trusted to run it safely I love nuclear tech but it’s not commer
by ok_dad 1y ago
Nuclear was never an option
1) cost is too high compared to other options
2) corpos can’t be trusted to run it safely
I love nuclear tech but it’s not commercializable anymore. I’ll happily change my opinion once a nuclear company solves those issues, but it’ll never happen.
- anon7000 1y agoTrue. The most likely reason it won’t happen is just because solar power is on a massive hockey stick growth pattern. Global solar power capacity grew 2.5x from 2020 to 2024. From 2023-2024, we added the equivalent of the total global solar capacity in 2017. Why? Solar is extremely modular, relatively simple and standardized to set up & maintain, which eliminates huge amounts of risk as an infrastructure project. (The less bespoke a project, the less likely it’ll have a severe cost overrun.) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption