Comment on Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies

• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes really.

  They are not significantly cheaper to build own or operate, on the contrary. I’m making an economic argument here.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you put economics before the environment then sure, nuclear’s not viable, never was.

    And oil’s only viable because of mass subsidies and tax exemptions.

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    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you put economics before the environment then sure, nuclear’s not viable, never was.

      Wait what? Surely nuclear gets less viable if you factor in the cost of cleaning up after yourself.

      And oil’s only viable because of mass subsidies and tax exemptions.

      That, and massive externalization.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Those molten salt reactors can run on what the current reactors create as nuclear waste. They actually help with the cleanup process by breaking the radioactive waste down to a few very short lived ions that cease to be radioactive quite quickly. The other nice part about them is that you can’t make weapons with them.

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