• pumpkinseedoil
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    1 day ago

    Even when ignoring environmental concerns and purely looking at it from a financial perspective: Renewable energy is more profitable already.

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      23 hours ago

      Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven’t let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.

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          22 hours ago

          Agreed, but it is so incredibly geography dependant that you can’t really generalize with it.

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          17 hours ago

          You definitely have to ignore ecological concerns when talking about hydro.