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Originally Posted by 11beatsperminute
Well, it was a lot of political pressure. Among other elections a big German state that had always had a conservative prime minister since WWII elected a guy from the Green Party to be PM. Imagine Ralph Nader getting elected governor of Texas.
And nuclear energy is safe until something happens. Btw Ukraine still spends 5% of its budget every year on keeping Chernobyl "safe".
yea admittedly i know nothing about german politics.
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Originally Posted by Gizmo
Doesn't it take a long time for nuclear reactors to be built, become active, and then recoup losses to turn a profit? Like 10 years or something? Wouldn't ten years be better spent researching better alternatives at this point?
yea it takes awhile, but thats with any source of energy extraction, takes time to build infrastructure and sell the commodity to make it a postive net present value investment. plus these things aren't mutually exclusive you can do both
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Originally Posted by Gizmo
I could send them to you if you like?
sure?