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Re:Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts (2022) by thelastgallon on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:09AM (#38806434)
Can we start with corporate welfare of fossil fuel companies? Fossil fuel companies take in welfare of trillions of dollars per year and cause 10 million deaths/year from air pollution. Deaths per TWH is negligible from nuclear or renewables, compared to fossil fuels.[1-5]

And then ethanol subsidies. 40m acres are subsidies to grow corn for ethanol, which is a net energy loss. [6,7]

1) https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022

2) Last year, fuels that drive climate change and pollute the air were underpriced to the tune of $7 trillion. It’s hard to think of a more misguided policy: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...

4) Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

5) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

6) Ethanol is a net energy-loser. According to their calculations, ethanol contains about 76,000 BTUs6per gallon, but producing that ethanol from corn takes about 98,000 BTUs: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/07/the-stupidest-fe...

7) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/acre-corn-grown-ethanol-vs-so...

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Re:Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts (2022) by wolverine876 on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:11AM (#38806471)
I'm not sure I understand. Of course we should cut corporate welfare to fossil fuel companies. Does that somehow mean we should supply it to nuclear power companies?
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Re:Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts (2022) by peterfirefly on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:02PM (#38808079)
It matters for cost comparisons.
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Re:Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts (2022) by thelastgallon on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:13PM (#38808218)
How do you level the playing field of past 100 years of fossil fuel subsidies? I think its fair to subsidize nuclear, wind and solar. If renewables + nuclear are subsidized to the same level as fossil fuels (trillions/year), in 10 years we'll have super cheap, clean, abundant energy.
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Re:Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S., Winning Converts (2022) by wolverine876 on Friday December 29, 2023 @06:48PM (#38811555)
I should give my money, and everyone else's money, to large corporations because I mistakenly did it before, and I want to be 'fair'? ?
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