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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by merpnderp on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:30AM (#19452048)
Your reasoning doesn't follow. If France's nuclear power was expensive, how did they export it? They sold it on a market where someone thought it was a better deal than alternatives.
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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by Retric on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:46AM (#19452233)
When the value of something is zero for you, making anything from selling it is a net gain. It’s true France needed massive subsidies to get into that place, but by exporting they needed slightly lower subsidies.

For a current example, the US loses money by exporting subsidized food. But, they would lose even more money by letting that food rot.

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