At least not if you're American or european. The reason Japan has a tough time just building out wind and solar is that they have very very little land. The best explanation of Japan I have ever heard in my life is take the population of California, triple it, squeeze it in the Montana and then take away half the land because it's all unlivable mountains ranges.

Japan has a genuine land shortage. Now I haven't actually run the numbers it's entirely possible that they could still power their country with wind and solar but let's take it for a moment that they can't yeah they could have a reason to run nuclear power plants.

For absolutely every other country on the face of the Earth the only reason to fire up nuclear power plants is to keep AI data centers fed without all that filthy filthy wind and solar that could potentially overtake fossil fuels before the people who own all the fossil fuels have secured their ownership of the means of producing electricity...

What I'm saying is our civilization, assuming it survives and that's all stretch at this point, is going to use wind and solar to power itself. That's just what we're going to do. You can go look up the YouTube channel technologies connections they have a long video explaining the math I can't be bothered if you can't...

But the problem is there really isn't any reason for these giant wind and solar farms to be owned by individuals. There just isn't any good reason for it. They should just be built by the government and provide electricity is a free public good. The same way we have a military to protect ourselves there are just some things that a civilization needs everyone to have. We all need to have the military keeping other countries from invading and we all need electricity. And economies of scale are still a thing so throwing up your own solar panels is just silly.

So the people who are used to owning and controlling your access to electricity don't want to give up all that power and money so they are slowing the transition to ensure that when it's all done they're still in charge and you still have to do what they say.

Meanwhile we have ai data centers who want power now and they don't want to wait and there sure should not going to bother going up against the oil companies. So nuclear power is back on the table. Which is all fine and good except well, look you've read the history of Fukushima or at least I hope you have. You know the corners were cut and you know which corners were cut. Did you know that the public blamed the engineers instead of the CEOs and suits?

When the engineers warn that these nuclear power plants are unsafe nobody is going to pay any attention to them. When the plants melt down that's the only time anyone's going to pay attention to the engineers and they're going to pay attention just long enough to blame them instead of the wealthy CEO who has an entire team of people dedicated to protecting his reputation...

17.5bn for 10 large reactors? Construction for a large US reactor is of the order of $10 to $20bn. Operation is gonna be 100 to 300m a year. Decomissioning is another $2bn.

So this loan will cover the build costs for one or maybe two of these. And will the cost of capital be materially lower than what’s on the markets? If not, why bother? And if so, let’s all bear in mind that’s a straightforward taxpayer subsidy for the industry.

It's Trump, so it's almost certainly just corruption.

How's the noise level? I'm sure I could cope with a side one. Big bendy tubes will do the job fine. Lack of sliding windows is the bigger problem

They do fabric things you stick on, but they aren't great.

I think my Lidl one would work. The inlet is on the side, I suppose it would be better at the back.

Air to water is okay for cooling if your system can take it, but in the UK condensation is often an issue.

There is just a little hint of a regulatory framework in place and that's what causes the cost overruns. Assuming JD Vance or Donald Trump wins in 2028 then that regulatory framework will go up in smoke and they can slap these together for next to nothing coming in well under budget. Now the downside to that is they will eventually experience a catastrophic meltdown but that's a problem for the rural communities stuck with these or maybe even the suburban communities stuck with these. Not the billionaires who are going to suck down all that cash and power their AI slop with it.

Basically that's a you problem not of them problem

Coal kills but it doesn't slowly over time. The problem with those reactors is when they go, and with the weak regulatory framework we put in place after 40 plus years of constant deregulation and whining about bureaucrats, when they go not if they basically ruin your property.

Dying of lung cancer in your 60s sucks. But it's still preferable to losing all your property in America. We do not treat people without property well.

Also what you describing is called a false dichotomy. Nobody's going to build coal because it costs too much. They're going to build wind and solar farms. The only reason that they aren't doing that is it requires bigger bribes to Trump to overcome the oil industry brides. The reason nuclear power is a thing right now is that the oil industry doesn't really see it as a threat the way they see wind and solar as a threat.

2008 called and they want their right-wing talking points back. We've been able to do base load power for close to 20 years with wind and solar.

Jesus Christ I hope this post I'm replying to is a bot and their aren't real human beings still spouting this nonsense in this day and age. God that would be sad...

Three Mile Island was the closest and it was not a big problem.

The problem is that the regulatory framework that prevented 3 Mile Island from blowing up in our faces is basically gone. Ronald Reagan and the American right wings spent 40 years dismantling it.

Meanwhile we have crooks in charge of everything and a completely corrupt supreme Court.

Rather than fixing the social issues that made nuclear power slightly dodgy and unsafe we exasperated them for whatever stupid reasons. We spent over 40 years making everything worse and putting imbeciles in charge with the mentality of 12-year-old children.

Under those circumstances nuclear power isn't just unsafe it's just a disaster waiting to happen and no sane community that had a functioning democracy would allow a plant to be built in their backyard. Especially because all the electricity is just going to go to AI slop.

It's all downsides and no upsides but there's this weird thing where a certain demographic of nerd is really obsessed with nuclear power.

These are going to be quick and dirty installations in order to power AI data centers for people that bribed trump. It's your taxpayer dollars going to finance AI slop.

But that's not the real problem, the real problem here is the people who want these want them yesterday. They are not going to pay any attention to safety or maintenance they're just going to slap them up as fast as possible in a place where the people don't have enough political power to deal with the inevitable repercussions.

Meanwhile we could power basically everything with wind and solar and do it safely and effectively but they don't want you to know that or think about that because while wind and solar is the inevitable direction we're going for power generation the Epstein class wants to remain in charge of your electricity and your access to clean water.

And the funny thing is when I write it out even though it's absolutely true it sounds like batshit crazy insane conspiracy because well, it kind of is. It's like Gore Vidal used to say, I'm not a conspiracy theorist I'm a conspiracy analyst...

And yeah you can have real conspiracies that are going to hurt you personally. Deal with it.

It is if you're a journalist or financial analyst with nothing else to write about. Nice thing is that it happens all the time. Pretty much every other day if you don't restrict yourself to the difference between open and close.

You going to find it's the same finance bro psychopaths that are automating all the jobs away and driving all of civilization into a new dark age.

UBI is a fake solution. You can't just cut people checks. Not when everything is owned by a handful of billionaires going on trillionaires. They will just raise prices until the check is right back in their pockets. And you will still be impoverished.

When you actually look into who's pushing UBI it's so that they can't cut all the other social programs and then point to the check you get every month and say that if you can't make it it's because you aren't being moral enough and budgeting correctly so it's all your fault.

UBI is a trick by the finance bros and the Epstein class to shift the blame for poverty from themselves back onto the everybody else and not on to them for taking all the money and all the technology and everything technology builds and creates.

You're going to need to come up with a more complex solution and sending people checks. And again I don't think people like that because well, people want things to be simple and easy to understand and they want a single solution that solves the problem once and for all instead of the constant never-ending maintenance and adjustments needed to keep human civilization from collapsing.

You're going to need to find something else though. You might be able to use those checks as a stopgap measure or part of a broader solution but they are not a solution by themselves they are a trick by the Epstein class to keep us on path to the thousand years of darkness that they are planning on for all of us...

Right well... turns out 3D printers work like shit in the heat but there's no AC left in stock. Any idea which models are good for modding?