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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by rapind on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:13PM (#27055066)
Profit in general is not the problem. It’s that we have no idea how to price externalities. If you could prove in court a correlation between coal production and disastrous weather events then you would enable massive class action suits against coal producers, eliminating any profit potential. No investor would go near it and the problem would solve itself.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by Guest42 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:12PM (#27055905)
I think that models from the reinsurance industry provide a certain amount of guidance as to the pricing of the externalities and they have been upping their premiums in recent years.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by laingc on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:25PM (#27055238)
Well, we actually do know how to do this fairly well. An Emissions Trading Scheme is the way to go.
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