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Re:White House seeks to end subsidies for electric cars, ren... by AstralStorm on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:07AM (#18597710)
Space usage and maintenance. Modifications of electric grid. Rare metal use.

Compared to health and environmental damage done by mining, gas and oil prospecting, it's cheap, but not as cheap as nuclear.

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Re:White House seeks to end subsidies for electric cars, ren... by sabertoothed on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:14AM (#18599106)
What makes you think nuclear has less severe externalities?

And I am not even including in my considerations that countries have totally mismanaged the storage in the past (e.g. UK dumping it into the ocean, Germany dumping it into an old mine etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...

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