>From a purely commercial pov, uranium fission couldn't cut it economically,
>and that is what surpressed nuclear. Even thorium 232-uranium 233 reactors,
>have failed to make it outside of Canada, when cost drives them from the
>market. The cheapest is coal, which should need no subsidies, and then natgas,
>of which there is a superabundance of currently. By the way shale gas cannot
>compete when the price of oil really drops, but competes successfully as the
>premiere electricity maker of the world! All the worlds nuke plans have been
>sidelined because natgas is cheaper, safer, and far quicker to build. Lastly,
>if you want people to agree that solar might take decades more so we need to
>subsidize it, you must be concluding that climate catastrophe is not hammering
>us yet, and thus, we can take our own sweet time to develop it?? If you feel
>that climate catastrophe is not imminent, then you logically must conclude
>that the threat is real, but exaggerated. On this, you likely are co
rrect.
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Yes, liz. Eliminate oil subsidies unless its for applied science. Aka
engineering development. Being a brutal libertarian, let it do the darwinian
two-step, that we all as individuals must do.
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Mind you oil, nuclear etc have had the benefit of decades of subsidies, so if
we want to do a proper balanced free market thing they should be cut, while
renewables should be given the same subsidies over the same period.
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