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Re:If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much... by beefield on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:22AM (#18752788)
> Even if there were no safety or environmental regulations at all, you still couldn't get there

I am not so sure. I mean, if you really do not have to care about safety and waste, how expensive it can be to dig up uranium, centrifuge it for enrichment and mold it to a shape that heats stuff around it?

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Re:If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much... by bilbo0s on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:24PM (#18753442)
Ask the Indians and Pakistanis, it's not at all cheap. Certainly something that only a state would take on. It's just beyond the capacity of most private investment groups. It would really require government backing to make it happen.
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Re:If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much... by Apocryphon on Monday December 24, 2018 @04:01PM (#18754249)
SpaceX for nuclear fission is an unsettling thought.
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