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Re:Several US utilities back out of deal to build novel nucl... by mk81 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @09:08AM (#26932410)
>We have a solution to end coal, oil and gas fired power plants, and end a tremendous amount of pollution. But it's somewhat more expensive to run a nuke plant... Is money the only thing we are looking at here?

I see these types of comments over and over and over.

Wind doesn't always blow. Sun doesn't always shine. We don't have economical grid-scale electrical energy storage technology. Therefore, we can't actually shut down the fossil generation plants, and we end up paying for both.

What is so hard to understand about this?

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