$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa

Re:$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cabl... by desro on Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:09PM (#35088152)

You're not wrong, and I'm as pro-nuclear as it gets (would love to see moonshot-scale projects to fully nuclearize as much of the globe as possible), but... we can have both.

If large scale solar deployments in the sunniest, most hostile parts of the planet are available sooner than our nuclear dreams could come true, then I say hurrah.

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Re:$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cabl... by konfusinomicon on Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:23PM (#35088301)

nuclearize the moon! Tether it with a giant space cable, made of sustainable materials of course. then watch all the pro mooninite folks come out of the woodwork and defend the hunting grounds of the moon master and his inalienable(pun intended) rights to all things moon.

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Re:$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cabl... by h0l0cube on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:49PM (#35105477)

> most hostile parts of the planet

It seems like you missed the point of my comment, and maybe didn’t read the article very closely. Whether one leans towards conservation of culture and ecology or not, it’s fair to say that reducing land use is important for said conservation. Even if you don’t hold such concerns, that doesn’t change the validity of the argument.

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