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rural americans will drive past a coal-fired power plant, in their five mpg ford truck, to go to a small town city council meeting and complain about how environmentally destructive solar panels are (slrpnk.net)
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And their vote counts more than yours because they live in rural districts with lower populations. Smh at "democracy."

A meme with two panels. The first panel is a scene of agrovoltaics - farmers growing crops underneath solar panels in a field - with the caption "solar panels waste our fertile soil and destroy our beautiful rural landscapes". In quotes to imply the meme is quoting someone else's objections to solar power. The second panel is an image of a coal power plant with smoke billowing from its smokestacks looming behind a field of crops. The caption reads "but this is cool?'
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I thought the primary problem with nuclear is that it is incredibly expensive?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    And the big roadblock is it takes way longer than an election cycle to get online, so there's little to no incentives to start a project of one. Renewables have the advantage of going online within that window.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Private insurance for the project is incredibly expensive. But there are ways to go about it differently, if the will is there.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Looking it up to refresh my memory, it looks like there's also the comparably very high construction cost and the cost of disposal and/or maintenance of the waste. Those feel like fairly fixed costs. Unless we can make those cheaper without sacrificing safety and worker pay, it seems like nuclear just isn't economically practical.

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