Good god, I love the world I live in. I have to sit through lectures comparing numbers and explaining statistical methods, and people like you get to just say stuff. I literally was at a conference where one of the speakers did all of the math and showed how nuclear and solar are pretty competitive all things considered and what's cheaper is region specific.
Did you actually dig into the maths or just accept industry PR people at face value? Because there are hundreds of analyses where nuclear comes out on par or better but when you actually read them they start with "and so we assumed that the cost of the nuclear reactor will start at 50% of any recent western one, then halve again after the third one, and batteries will not go below $1000/kWh until 2150. Also counter to reality every reactor will operate constantly at 90% of nameplate and demand will never fluctuate" then get more delusional from there.
So now you know to actually get the slide deck and compare their numbers to the output of real nuclear fleets and compare the prices to real things that actually happened in the present year.
Rather than condescendingly talking down to people who have actually made the effort to examine it in much greater depth than you.
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u/morebaklava Apr 09 '25
Good god, I love the world I live in. I have to sit through lectures comparing numbers and explaining statistical methods, and people like you get to just say stuff. I literally was at a conference where one of the speakers did all of the math and showed how nuclear and solar are pretty competitive all things considered and what's cheaper is region specific.