• Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I don’t care if it’s solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, or nuclear, as long as it displaces fossil fuels. And it’s feasible on a very near time scale.

    If Sweden did an honest investigation and found that renewables would be more costly and take longer, let em get nuclear.

    We need an “all of the above” approach. This fight between nuclear and renewables is just stirred up by fossil fuel interests. Either is good. Both is good.

    • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      If Sweden did an honest investigation and found that renewables would be more costly and take longer, let em get nuclear.

      Bullshit. Renewables are cheap as chips.

      Think of a traditional power plant. There are 4 main cost catagories: Construction, Maintenance, Fuel, Demolition.

      • In a traditional plant, over the life of the plant Fuel will by far be the biggest cost.

      • For renewables, Construction, Maintenance and Demolition cost more (issues such as remote locations, weather, smaller generators means more generators which increases the mean time to failure) however they have ZERO fuel cost.

      Renewable generation is profitable as fuck, moreso than nuclear. Your average wind farm pays itself off in less than 5 years.

      This is a right wing government backing the interests of fossil fuels, by implementing policy that delays any meaningful reduction in fossil fuel use.

      • nicman24@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        have you ever been in Sweden? it is a a rocky mountainous and mostly dark region. they only renewables that they can easily manage is geothermal and iirc they do not have the correct crust for it

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Finally! Some countries are starting to make rational decisions!