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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by qwytw on Friday September 20, 2024 @10:13AM (#41602204)
> how to separate utilities from money

Forced labour? Central planning? Requisition? How exactly would that work? Somebody still needs to build and operate those power plants.

Also commercial and industrial users consume >60% of all electricity in the US, should they also be subsidized? Or subsidize residential users?

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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by baq on Friday September 20, 2024 @10:48AM (#41602539)
If I had answers, I wouldn't be saying that it's a good time to think about that.

But you shouldn't assume that things will just continue on as they were in the past hundred years. Boomers are retiring now, when the busters start going into retirement it's going to be a huge mess. Inflation is how democracies die.

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