• @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    -12 years ago

    So even if I follow your logic, that nuclear plants will get cheaper and faster to build, wich I’m not, you still have to build the first generation of plants slow and expensive. So we either wait 15 years to get better at building those plants, or we just build renewables right now.

    • Buelldozer
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      12 years ago

      So we either wait 15 years to get better at building those plants, or we just build renewables right now.

      We do both. This isn’t a binary choice.

      • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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        -12 years ago

        Money and manpower are not infinite. Any money spent on one is a choice not to spend it on the other.

        • Buelldozer
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          2 years ago

          Money and manpower are not infinite.

          Functionally they are because different Capital Groups will chase different projects. For instance Bill Gates / TerraPower is heavily backing both Fusion and SMR Fission technology.

          Meanwhile other Capital Groups like Anschutz are piling money into Wind Farms then there’s yet other groups like Silicon Ranch pouring money into Solar Farms.

          It seems to have escaped the notice of most Netizens but the big money Capitalists have finally come out to play in the Green / Renewable Energy space. Sure there’s an absolute limit on the money and manpower that even they can afford but practically speaking those limits are so high that we’re unlikely to reach them.