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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:37AM (#22170322)
Far too late. 10 years to build is optimistic, and that is on top of a good decade or 2 of bureaucracy before even breaking ground.
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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by manfredo on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:21PM (#22172377)
France managed to bring its nuclear generation from close to 0% to over 75% in 15 years.
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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by Maximus9000 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:37PM (#22172584)
Interesting... actually, that is actually fairly compelling evidence that it can be done. Thanks!

For anyone interested, citation is here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/read...

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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:42PM (#22172649)
In the 1970's, yes. Nowadays it seems to take 10 years to build something as simple as a subway station.
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Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ... by manfredo on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#22172707)
Technology hasn't regressed. Nuclear plants get built cheaper and faster on a per unit basis when they're built as part of a series of production. France built dozens of copies of the same four reactor designs. By comparison, many new projects are one off or part of only a single digit number of copies.
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