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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Breeder reactors already exist??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Notable_reactors

Moving electricity around is a hard problem. Even just moving energy from one end of Britain to the other looses us 10 or 20%, and we are a small nation. If you need to start moving energy in from somewhere actually sunny like Spain you are going to have a big problem.

Crypto isn't looking for a problem, fiat has plenty of problems, it's just not an optimal solution. Probably the real answer is not using money at all.