New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light by read_if_gay_ on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:00AM (#24950163)

> Your iPhone was not built here. Your banana was not grown here. The corn might have been grown half a country away. The drugs you might have been prescribed were maybe not produced in your country at all. Why would energy be so different in that regard?

The examples you provided here really don't illustrate your point well because most of them are easily shipped across the ocean which is not at all true for energy.

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Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light by roenxi on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:50AM (#24950680)

We do ship energy across oceans though, in oil tankers and as coal.

A better counterargument would the suspicious number of wars, invasions and military bases involved in cross-country energy exchanges (ie, there is a lot of fighting over oil in the middle east). It seems remarkably foolish to source energy from territory controlled by a foreign military.

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Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light by _Microft on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:45AM (#24950369)

Renewable energy production is not as centralized as production of physical goods. There is no need to transmit energy that far.

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Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light by read_if_gay_ on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:44AM (#24950664)

Exactly, and that's why those examples aren't really illustrative of the point you're making. That's all I was trying to say.

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