| ▲ | recursive 15 hours ago |
| Build nuke and solar then. The more the merrier. |
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| ▲ | boringg 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Nuke, storage, solar and wind. They all work together. You need redundancy, resiliency and dedicate quality power. No reason for people to splinter the effort on clean reliable power. If we only go after solar, wind and storage -- how are we ever going to get to long form space travel and continue to level up our technology for energy? How will we get to fusion? |
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| ▲ | garbagewoman 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > How will we get to fusion? By researching fusion? Imagine how much research you could do with all the money that you didn't waste on building uneconomical nuclear power plants | | |
| ▲ | pbkompasz an hour ago | parent [-] | | Or subsidizing oil and gas...
It's such a shame that a certain political ideology which strongly believes in the free market (or so they claim) made energy a political issue... |
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| ▲ | rcxdude 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A bit of a waste if the nuclear is obsolete by the time it comes online and we could have spent the money on renewables instead. |
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| ▲ | crote 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Money can only be spent once. Similarly, a construction crew can only be at one construction site at a time. Investing in building new nuclear power plants will slow down construction of solar. |
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| ▲ | boringg 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What? Construction crews are completely different - different tranches of money. Couldn't be more wrong about this. | |
| ▲ | recursive 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Money can only be spent once Nope. One of the fundamental premises of money is that it circulates. The only way money could not be re-spent is if the money supply were to decrease. The total volume of new power generation is going to be mostly determined by how much those capital holders value it. If there's more utility in power this year than last, we may see more new starts in generation projects, regardless of which type of generation those projects are doing. |
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