• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It blows my mind we are avoiding this? You want jobs? Clean stable energy? Its fucken here dude. Just build some plants. They only need to be properly maintained to avoid disaster. If we truly are an intelligent species that should be easy as hell.

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        1 year ago

        I hate that its true, but yeah. Our city management accross the nation has long been pocketing maintenance budgets. Cause shit is run down everywhere in “the greatest nation”.

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      1 year ago

      “disaster” is a big word for what happens with a nuclear accident.

      The fire in Hawaï or the climate change are disasters. A hurricane is a disaster. Chernobyl or fukushima were disasters in the media much more than in the reality of things.

      Cars kill more people every year than nuclear energy did since we use it. In fact, this is still true even if you account for atomic bombs…

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        1 year ago

        Energy should be nationalised. Energy does not need to be run for profit. It should be at a cost.

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          1 year ago

          Even if it’s nationalized we still want energy generation as low cost as possible so we can use the national budget for other things.

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            1 year ago

            Sure, but cost isn’t the sole (or main) consideration when you remove profit-motive.

            Also, you only need to break even, so it will always be more affordable than private sector.

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            1 year ago

            That just goes for everything, though. Thats not specific to any one industry. Clean and abundant energy will come at a cost and that should just be acceptable.