Economics are a strange beast because they are clearly made up, and clearly inescapable.
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Recently read that the UK is on track to decarbonise 90% of the grid by the end of the current parliament. An oil crisis pushes people away from oil, who would have thought it?
If I were trying to destroy fossil fuels from his position, all options on the table, I'm sure I could do as well or better, but my mask would have slipped by now.
Still don't expect him to survive, nor believe he's anything but committed to fossil fuel and most of the rest of his non-sense, but its kinda comforting how much he sucks at it.
Years later in the archive holograms Donald "Leto II" Trump speaks about his golden path plan: I did what I did so that the world could be weaned of oil and US big tech, and for Europe to be militarily independent.
We'd be even better if we used nuclear in that.
We do use nuclear. Though at this point it's looking like wind/solar/battery is going to be cheaper, if it isn't already.
more importantly to the people in charge of the spending, deploys and gets its returns faster. Nuclear you are looking a decade before it starts being operational and then another couple decades to recoup the cost. Solar can be up and running in months and recoup within a decade.
Nuclear you are looking a decade before it starts being operational and then another couple decades to recoup the cost.
By the time a new nuclear plant breaks even on the capital expenditures to build it, a competing solar plant has already been built, operated for a few decades, and been torn down/decommissioned for even newer tech. That 80-year nuclear plant has to compete with like 3 successive generations of solar plants/batteries, advanced geothermal, and maybe even commercialized fusion. Building a new nuclear plant is a decision to saddle your grandchildren with a payment plan on locked in costs of construction today.
I heard of people covering the cost of solar within a year in some extreme cases during the last energy crisis.
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