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Cheap electricity. Like a 10x-15x reduction. We can't change material cost at the moment, but this is something we could have influence over. Recycling steel a
by exabrial 5mo ago
Cheap electricity. Like a 10x-15x reduction.
We can't change material cost at the moment, but this is something we could have influence over. Recycling steel and aluminum would be dirt cheap. We'd leap even farther ahead in training AI models. We'd reduce carbon emissions from shipping. So many beautiful outcomes.
I can dream. If there's one upside to the AI boom, I hope we see a plethora and overbuild of power infrastructure and a second coming of nuclear energy. Alas, both blue and red hate nuclear when both should love it.
- adjejmxbdjdn 5mo agoSo cheap electricity will come by building out the most expensive source of electricity?
- exabrial 5mo agoSigh. You are the reason we can't move forward.
- impossiblefork 5mo agoBut surely he has to be right here? If nuclear power is expensive relative to other ways of getting electricity and not variable, then it surely can't bring prices down? or are you imagining nuclear power as some sort of variable base load for renewables, using some sort of improved plants or something?