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It's expensive because no investment has been made to scale it up and make cheaper & safer, whereas a ton of subsidies and investment went into scaling up solar
by chucknthem 3y ago
It's expensive because no investment has been made to scale it up and make cheaper & safer, whereas a ton of subsidies and investment went into scaling up solar and making that cheaper over the past 2 decades.
China will probably make it cheap given the pace they're going building out nuclear plants.
- natmaka 3y agoChina is way more active deploying renewables than nuclear. https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2022/04/12/even-china-cannot-rescue-nuclear-power-its-woes https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2022/04/12/even-china-cannot-re...
- chucknthem 3y agoYep, they have massive energy demand and going full steam ahead in all energy sources.