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posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 27.03.2022, 05:22

> > Hello RayeR, hello mceric,
> >
> > > I know that building nuclerar power plants was delayed on many places
> > and
> > > price has incerased but everything growed up due to inflation, also
> > price
> > > of electricity has increased and noone can guess for next 10 years. In
> > our
> > > case it's easier that we will not build a new plant on a green field
> but
> > > just add reactor blocks to existing infrasteucture.
> >
> > Hmm... I am having this mental picture of a scene where a certain leader
> in
> > the East is threatening to cut off gas and oil supplies, and people in
> the
> > West still cannot quite decide whether to build more nuclear plants or
> more
> > wind turbines (or both)... :-|
>
> Indeed! Note that the UK example actually DOES describe the case where
> "only" a reactor block has to be added. Still that only worked out
> financially after the government offered to pay far above normal prices for
> electricity, which at some point were so low that even coal and gas were
> not making much profit any more.
>
> At the same time, Germany has been focusing for years to "rescue" the
> fossil industry, which caused the loss of several 100 000 renewable jobs
> which apparently have less lobby power. We just left that sector to China
> and other countries which can build turbines and photovoltaics at the
> lowest prices.
>
> Either way, discussing about what to do indeed is one of the less effective
> ways of getting it done. I remember a public discussion event 10 years ago
> in the Netherlands where some activists from the "other" side seriously
> suggested to wait until we "soon" have safe fusion power so we could avoid
> having "ugly" turbines and solar panels standing around in the meantime.
Yep.... "government officials" in every country talk, talk, talk and talk some more.

But, never seem to actually _DO_ much of anything that amounts to much. :(

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