alt Hacker NewsWith hindsight, it wasn't a very good idea to shut down 6 of 12 nuclear reactors. Still much better than the situation in Germany, but that's a very low bar.
It will be interesting to see how the Rolls-Royce SMR project works out. Since it appears to be impossible to build anything cheaply in the UK, this will be the real test.
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antupis • today at 7:52 AM
Sweden main issue is that there is no transmission capacity between North and South, like now prices are 2x at south.
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mitxela • today at 6:16 AM
There's a simpler solution, stop letting the AI turn everything into paperclips and there won't be a shortage of paperclip material.
Gud • today at 9:38 AM
You didn’t need “hindsight”. It was painfully stupid at the time.
notTooFarGone • today at 6:55 AM
Yeah please send some electricity to Germany it's so horrible here :'(
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> Since it appears to be impossible to build anything cheaply in the UK
The solution is to build nuclear power stations on ships in China, then sail them to the UK and plug them in.
If power prices elsewhere in the world become advantageous, sail them elsewhere and plug them in there.
You still have the interconnection costs, but seaside places sometimes have high voltage connections for existing or historic power plants (who themselves are water cooled)