• ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Yea, so our focus should be both renewable and nuclear. Why does it have to be one or the other?

    • gmtom@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because any money spent on nuclear is money not spent on renewables. Most of these projects are government funded or at least subsidised. So a couple billion spent on a nuclear reactor is a couple billion tied up in something that wont make power for 10-20 years. Whereas if we spent that money on wind farms you could be generating power in less than a year.

        • halfempty@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          That is a given, regardless. Let’s use our limited research and development and infrastructure funding to advance renewables. Not high-cost, centralized tech tied to the nuclear bomb industry for it’s refined uranium sources.