Yeah, it’s a trend on Reddit that’s spreading (see what I did there? Heh, sex). I don’t like it at all. The punchline is either non-existent, “heh, sex” or women being horny. Just uninspired stuff. I get why the artists do it, it pays the bills. But I’m not too keen on it.

That’s kind of funny. Nuclear energy is actually getting more expensive:

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A few reasons come to mind:

• The newer the technology, the higher the cost.
• Each reactor and its power plant is a huge project. This makes scaling up production difficult. And please don’t start with tiny reactors. We’re not in Fallout.
• Safety standards have risen.

There are probably more reasons. I would of course not compare it to coal but to renewables. They’re the future. Storage will be needed but those options are also getting cheaper by the day.

Ah, whataboutism. How cunning. I’m done with you.

Exactly. Privatize the profits and socialize the costs. What a brilliant system. Unfortunately it benefits only a small handful while everyone else picks up the tab.

Thanks professor. Do you know private debt and state debt are hardly the same? Have you considered the opportunity cost of not having public energy, therefore losing potential “earnings” to private investors? Or are you telling me next that rich people are a necessity as well? Is trickle-down part of this course or do I have to wait for 201?

This has little to do with where you’re from. It’s just neoliberal rhetoric. Having a public energy sector would be beneficial in the long run and would reduce what we have to pay for it. Right now the earnings are privatized in most places.

That’s incorrect. Nuclear power is one of the more expensive options when you factor in the costs after operation ends, which you should obviously do.