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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   I love it. Localise and externalise the harm! Just hope the poor souls who have to work in lithium extracing and refining are paid well.
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   So anything's a gamble? Gotcha.
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   >building nuclear is not competitive It clearly is, if France is selling nuclear power to the rest of Europe.
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   We (well, at least in the UK) have plenty of them. It's all that tricky, expensive, and financially unrewarding infrastructure that's holding things back. We pay Scottish windfarms about £200million per year to curtail their outpu
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   So it's easy to throw up some wind turbines and solar panels, but difficult, expensive, and requires cutting-edge technology to make them useful as power sources to the national grid?
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   >Nuclear promises many things, but so far shows no signs of fulfilling them. Last time I checked, France's nuclear power stations were keeping the lights on in Europe while Germany scrambles to start up coal plants.
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   So renewables are not cheap, easy, and quick?
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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

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   by fewavewavewa 4y ago

   If modern renewables are so affordable as investments, provide quick returns, and produce electrictiy that's 30% the cost of nuclear, then why isn't it everywhere and electric power very cheap?