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Entropy? Never heard of it. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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.