• uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Good luck building enough capacity in nuclear power to do that. Nuclear plants tend to be a lot more expensive and take a lot longer to build than anticipated.

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      4 days ago

      Literally only in the US and Europe. Remove the profit motive and don’t keep on inefficient construction companies and it’s a quick process.

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        There’s no profit motive for large scale carbon capture anyway, so big CC plants and big nuclear plants would need the same political will.

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        Can you point out a nuclear project that was a quick process? How would removing the profit motive make it quicker?

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          Sure, China. You can build a nuclear power plant from dirt to operation in 6 months. Not 10 years plus infinite overages, 6 months.

          If there’s not a perverse profit motive at every stage and instead people are rewarded for getting the job done and getting the job done right, you end up with high quality fast engineering.