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Can we please just invest more heavily in nuclear? My preference is thorium reactors given they are far, far less dangerous in all regards.

Given ARKs time horizon, it would be a prescient investment. There's no way in hell were going to get stable power from solar and batteries alone. The bitcoin power problem is also solved.

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I'm pro nuclear, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed. Renewable prices have been going down fast and are not stopping, and building a new plant is expensive.

We should care about keeping the old ones operating as long as possible, but we've been hearing tales of new safer smaller easy to deploy nuclear plants designs for decades, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Nuclear is dispatchable, wind and solar isn't. There is still a chance for a future of nuclear but its more a political game at this point.

We currently use natural gas for this flexibility, which is better than coal, but still a big polluter.

> My preference is thorium reactors given they are far, far less dangerous in all regards.

True, non-existent reactors are the least dangerous of all, just like components that aren't there are the most reliable.

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