Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
by dualvariable on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:40PM
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And nuclear has still sat there being too expensive and solving nothing, proving the point, but apparently this is evidence of the opposite.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
by jabl on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:48PM
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My argument was that while waiting for renewables to become cheap, we could have built nuclear instead of fossil capacity and avoided a shitton of emissions. The Messmer plan being an existence proof that such a thing would have been possible.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
by dualvariable on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:56AM
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Renewables passed nuclear a long time ago. If the economics of renewables weren't making sense, the economics of nuclear were worse.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
by ViewTrick1002 on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:42PM
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We did try to build nuclear. Massive subsidy programs were created, it just didn’t deliver.
That being said, it seems finally solar+wind+storage+a little bit of other stuff is becoming cheap enough that it's starting to make a dent in the emissions. Which is fantastic, don't get me wrong. But it's also sad we've lost decades.