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0 pointsunethical_ban6y ago0 comments

>At the end of the day it needs to stand on its own to make sense

Why? Why does such a critical piece of civilization NEED to make money on a free market? Why is it absurd to expect governments to help fund power generation like they are expected to fund other infrastructure (and healthcare, in most of the developed world)?

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icebraining6y ago

Because the point of a subsidy is to benefit the public, not particular industries. If others can stand on their own, why would you waste public money on subsidizing a less efficient one?

unethical_banOP6y ago

The point of government is to serve the public interest. There is a lot of current public-private power generation in the U.S.

I also disagree with your assertion that there are renewable technologies that compete with the reliability of Nuclear.

icebraining6y ago

> The point of government is to serve the public interest. There is a lot of current public-private power generation in the U.S.

Sure, that doesn't go against what I said.

> I also disagree with your assertion that there are renewable technologies that compete with the reliability of Nuclear.

Neither can minicomputers compete with the reliability of mainframes, yet we've seen how that went. Reliability can be worked around with engineering. It'll be a messy mix of power sources, storage technologies and distribution networks, but it'll be cheap. Nuclear will keep existing - at the margins.

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0 pointsunethical_ban6y ago0 comments

>At the end of the day it needs to stand on its own to make sense

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icebraining6y ago

Because the point of a subsidy is to benefit the public, not particular industries. If others can stand on their own, why would you waste public money on subsidizing a less efficient one?

unethical_banOP6y ago

The point of government is to serve the public interest. There is a lot of current public-private power generation in the U.S.

I also disagree with your assertion that there are renewable technologies that compete with the reliability of Nuclear.

icebraining6y ago

> The point of government is to serve the public interest. There is a lot of current public-private power generation in the U.S.

Sure, that doesn't go against what I said.

> I also disagree with your assertion that there are renewable technologies that compete with the reliability of Nuclear.

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