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New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power (www.pv-magazine.com)
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New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power::In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy strategies of the United States and certain European countries.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What’s cheaper to recycle, fiberglass windmills or radioactive waste?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But disposal/storage of waste is baked in to the cost of nuclear. The economics of solar and wind don’t include those which is why we have windmill trash heaps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Decades of surcharges for nuclear decommissioning show that’s not true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was talking about the starting of new projects

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