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whycometoday at 2:20 PM3 repliesview on HN

Best way to provide power to a population over 10 million


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 2:36 PM

And if the world goes to shit again, having a baseline for building an Alpine nuclear deterrent isn't the worst thing to have on soil.

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iso1631today at 3:48 PM

Best way for who?

Nuclear is vastly more expensive per MWh than renewables. It's better than pumping stuff out the ground sure, but that's about it.

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rz2ktoday at 3:35 PM

I wonder if they’ll stagger their waking hours so that electric power consumption matches the inflexible output of nuclear reactors.

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