Ah yes “common sense”, the go to argument from everyone ranging from people who want to throw out migrants to nuclear shills.
After all, why wouldn’t we burn billions on a technology that is less efficient per kw/h, takes decades longer to build, doesn’t scale, has a worse LCOE than renewables and leaves us with toxic forever waste? It’s just common sense bro.
Still (way) more expensive than just building cheap renewables.
Lemmy seems 100% astroturfed by pro-nuclear lobbyists.
We need to modernize and further integrate the European grid anyway.
The LCOE for nuclear is substantially higher than wind and solar. It’s not just upfront costs.
Can someone fill me in on why this website is so insanely pro nuclear energy?
Like, I’m not even fundamentally against it but I don’t understand why we should invest billions in a tech that has essentially been leapfrogged already, would take a decade to become relevant again and is more expensive per KW/h than both renewables and fossil fuels.
Yet every comment criticizing nuclear on Lemmy always (literally every time) gets buried in downvotes. It’s super weird.
Nuclear being less efficient and more expensive than renewables is not an opinion.