Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Nuclear power looks cheap—right up until you factor in the part where you have to mothball the reactor for a hundred years, entomb the waste in some geologically stable crypt, and pray your great-grandkids don’t get irradiated by a budget cut. The sticker price on a kilowatt-hour is a joke, a little accounting fiction that conveniently ignores the back-end costs, because if you actually priced in decommissioning, storage, and the inevitable government bailouts, nuclear would be about as ‘cheap’ as launching your local power plant into orbit. But hey, that’s the magic of privatization of profits and socializing the fallout.
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Metaphorical
@hyp
If only wind turbines weren’t carcinogenic.
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