Tripling the World’s Nuclaer Energy Capacity Is a Fantasy

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1. Unless we decide to buckle up and do it. There is no technical reason we couldn’t build them at several times the rate they were being installed in the 1970s.

   Will only happen if renewables fail to prevent climate change though. The barriers are all political, so something would have to fix the politics.

2. Then we better turn off the bitcoin and AI, cause there won’t be enough energy left over for living, breathing human beings.

3. I certainly *hope* that the industry can figure out its timing and cost issues–getting new reactors on the grid would be helpful for a whole host of reasons.

   But with hope and $4.50 I can buy a coffee, and I have zero confidence that they actually will get those issues sorted out.