• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    The only thing that matters is how clean our power is. If you are worrying about “cost” you are supporting capitalism and the fossil fuel industry. And cost to consumers is extremely misleading mostly as a result of power policy, completely divorced from cost to generate. Nuclear can absolutely be cheap, just end the subsidies on other fuel sources, allowing fuel recycling, and imprison all shareholders, congressmen, and lobbyists of the international energy cartels.

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      3 hours ago

      Cost still matters, especially if renewable energy is cheaper and has the same emissions.

      I am not supporting capitalism by saying that cost still matters. If socialist states didn’t care about cost when building stuff they would have all dissolved long ago.

      Anyway I very well may be wrong that nuclear is expensive. It is likely just expensive in Australia which is where I live and were I have done my research on (Since Aussie maga has been pushing hard for nuclear energy recently)