• FishFace@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    In the alternative universe we’d have been building fission power for decades when it was cheaper than renewables, and it would still be running today.

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        9 months ago

        We were talking about power strategies from the 1980s and the person above said it would just be the “cheapest”. If countries really were just building the cheapest, it would not have been renewables back then.

        We were already talking about a counterfactual.

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          9 months ago

          I guess. If we’re in this hypothetical alternative universe then those plants built in the 80’s would be at the end of their lives and we’d be looking to spend a fortune to replace them with new nuclear or we’d be saving money by building renewables.

          I’m still not sure what this line if discussion is accomplishing though.