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polski-gtoday at 3:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

Because the federal government made it effectively illegal to build nuclear reactors, and there are no more rivers to be dammed.


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WarmWashtoday at 3:35 PM

People will run to point to the spate of new nuclear plans, but the point be made here is that nuclear regulation is so suffocating and costs so extreme that it's "effectively illegal" to build reactors.

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dyauspitrtoday at 4:32 PM

Plenty of solar and wind with batteries are available. Data centers and renewable energy are a match made in heaven. They can be in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap.

andsoitistoday at 3:34 PM

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