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Solar and wind are currently both cheaper than coal, and rapidly getting cheaper.

Nuclear is more expensive, and the cost is growing. There will be almost certainly be no private investment in nuclear in the future unless it’s ideologically driven.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

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Come on let’s get some price breaks on the solar towers!

I totally know what solar towers are

Wiki: Eye of Sauron

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Nuclear is more expensive, and the cost is growing. There will be almost certainly be no private investment in nuclear in the future unless it’s ideologically driven.

even if this is the case, i still think it’s a good idea to at least invest in research and development in nuclear fission, which might even help fusion down the road. Not to mention it’s always good to have alternatives. Would be a shame if we found out that solar panels are actually the new asbestos or something silly.

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The only problems with solar are incoming president McFuckface’s tariffs, and AI’s propensity to use every goddamn moving electron in the world.

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the AI problem is irrelevant to solar. The tariffs definitely don’t help, plus we already have a raw materials import ban from china as well, so that’s cool.

Really doesn’t help that china has basically an entire market monopoly on rare earth materials.

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almost certainly no private investment in nuclear in the future

I too refuse to read any news, ever, if it doesn’t support my viewpoint. Definitely no current investments in nuclear at the moment.

I like wind and solar! They’re not the whole of the solution for the whole globe though. There’s no reason to keep spreading the fossil fuel industry’s propaganda for them.

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Sorry, I meant to say new private investment

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