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Re:US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling by pfdietz on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:26AM (#32950400)
The people you need to convince are the people with money making the decisions. They look at nuclear and see a loser technology that consistently overpromises and underdelivers, and blows throw its cost promises again and again. In comparison, utility scale renewable installations dependably come in with 10% of the contracted figures.

V.C. Summer and Vogtle 3/4 were the nails in the coffin for nuclear here in the US. Nuclear has no time now to rebuild a reputation for honesty.

Soccer moms and instagram influencers have nothing to do with this.

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Re:US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling by tuatoru on Friday September 23, 2022 @08:24AM (#32950944)
They have votes. Politicians do what they say.
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Re:US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling by ncmncm on Friday September 23, 2022 @09:41AM (#32951831)
Politicians have arranged to be well-insulated from what soccer moms want. Soccer moms, meanwhile, are what we call a "managed population". They vote as they are told to. Not just them, of course.

We are living in the world Edward Bernays built, where democracy holds vanishingly little sway as PR machinery reliably generates votes for whatever whoever pays it wants.

Sometimes opposing payers compete.

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