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[–] MattMastodon@mastodonapp.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@BrokebackHampton @sv1sjp @flossdaily

Our local new #nuclear power station, Hinkley Point in the UK, is years behind schedule. The cost has more than doubled to £40bn ($46bn) and the strike price (guaranteed price we as electricity customers will have to pay for it is £106per mwh (index linked so will be nearer £150 by 2028 (for 35 years) when it is planned to be operational.

This when #wind is costing as low as £40 per MWh.

Nuclear energy is a scam

#renewables #wind

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean the nation that invented Prince 2 can't get a project done on time and budget?!

[–] MattMastodon@mastodonapp.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@magikmw

Well it's being built by the French 😄

But Europe or America the story of the same. Cost overruns and other issues mean nuclear is running out of steam. We are at the end of the age of nuclear... Until fusion comes along, apparently only 20 years away

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-nuclear-power-plant-vogtle-rates-costs-75c7a413cda3935dd551be9115e88a64

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I have high hopes for fission, it is like scifi actually come true.

But in 20 years we may be way past worrying how to make energy without greenhouse gases. I really hope it's closer.

[–] MattMastodon@mastodonapp.uk 0 points 1 year ago

@magikmw

Oh, I didn't know we invented Prince 2, another thing to apologise for...