Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push

Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by hoaw on Saturday January 26, 2019 @07:24PM (#19009509)

To succeed with large project you generally have to develop competence in-house first to know what you are doing. Today it is quite unpopular, at least in western countries, for the government to do that. When things become more accessible, it doesn't necessarily mean they become simpler. In fact there is often added complexity. It isn't just nuclear power plants, but all kinds of infrastructure.

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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by ip26 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:17PM (#19010321)

It feels like we couldn't build the goddamn interstate system today, and you can't tell me that's due to a lack of pavement-laying competence.

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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by hoaw on Sunday January 27, 2019 @06:20AM (#19011299)

Laying pavement itself is likely a very small part of building an interstate system, in terms of success. Though, I am sure there are e.g. cities that can barely do that. I mean, whenever I see a video from the US the streets always seems broken, at least in cities. Large projects today seems to fail even before any actually manual work is done.

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