Baseline energy is incredibly important, and often not factored into the "cost" comparisons.
replyEspecially true now with the explosive growth of data center and AI workloads.
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replyActually, nuclear is not way more expensive.
replyAnd already-built nuclear is pretty much the cheapest power you can get.
It's cheap because we are offsetting the cost if its ultimate pollution onto future generations. We do this for everything else, and nuclear is our best chance for a liveable planet - if we don't want to make the slightest effort to give up on our comfort. But we have the belief that humanity will be able to manage nuclear waste for the next 100k years while we don't know how the pyramids were built... and it was only 3k years ago.
replynobody is offsetting anything, it's accounted, please dont spread this tired russian propaganda nonsense https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte...
Or search what's onkalo. Or what we do with arsenic/cadmium/lead waste
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replyThat cost has a lot to do with amortizing the construction costs of the plant. I expect that just running a plant is a lot cheaper than that.
replyThis is about *not* decommissioning working plants.