• @[email protected]
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    1111 hours ago

    nb4 someone laughs at us Germans for pulling out of nuclear power: No, nuclear is not cheap. It’s literally the most expensive way to generate electricity. Solar is cheap and better for the environment.

    • troed
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      1311 hours ago

      Nuclear is cheaper than your average electricity cost.

      I know because I’m Swedish and you use us as your cheap electricity.

    • @Valmond
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      38 hours ago

      French electricity enters the chat.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 hours ago

      No, nuclear is not cheap. It’s literally the most expensive way to generate electricity

      Source?

      Beats coal anytime. Or Russian gas.

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      10 hours ago

      Nuclear is reliable, predictable and stable 24/7 source. Solar not so much and possibly not that great for the environment if we don’t figure out what to do with used solar panels. Also their production is not exactly clean. Whereas nuclear requires a wasted fuel storage somewhere and the fuel will eventually run out of radiation in some hundreds of thousands years.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 minutes ago

        Storing something extremely dangerous extremely safely for “some hundreds of thousands of years” doesn’t exactly sound cheap, does it?