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Re:Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.... by guelo on Sunday January 08, 2023 @06:59PM (#34304820)
Only nuclear? That seems more like a political attitude than a considered stance. Especially with the amazing progress that has been made with wind and solar.
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Re:Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.... by almost_usual on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:00PM (#34305395)
There needs to be amazing progress with energy storage, otherwise wind and solar improvements don’t mean much.
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Re:Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.... by melling on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:45PM (#34305701)
How many times have solar and wind proponents been told this? It never seems to sink in.

We’ve been waiting decades to replace all the coal power plants.

30 years of “it takes too long to build nuclear power plants” and “solar is almost ready” and now we’ve got what looks like an unavoidable problem.

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Re:Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:57PM (#34305808)
> We’ve been waiting decades to replace all the coal power plants

And we only started replacing them when natural gas became a viable alternative.

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