But, building a whole new reactor complex would involve moving a great deal of money over a long period, which is the real point of the whole operation. Big Construction is synonymous with Big Corruption, the true reason for fission plant construction cost overruns, as for municipal tunnels and for military programs.
Meanwhile, renewables get cheaper every year, and projects produce marketable power immediately.
A recent development is floating solar on hydro and municipal reservoirs, and building it into roofs over canals, reducing evaporation, algae, and toxics production, without consuming land, and offering easy tie-in to existing distribution networks.
Such synergy is nowhere near exhausted. For example, a farm can erect a wind turbine far from distribution networks, and use the intermittent power to produce ammonia from just air and water. Ammonia is easily and cheaply stored indefinitely, and is directly useful as fertilizer injected directly into furrows behind plow blades. It is also directly useful as fuel for farm machinery, which can easily accommodate the somewhat larger tankage vs. diesel fuel.
But, building a whole new reactor complex would involve moving a great deal of money over a long period, which is the real point of the whole operation. Big Construction is synonymous with Big Corruption, the true reason for fission plant construction cost overruns, as for municipal tunnels and for military programs.
Meanwhile, renewables get cheaper every year, and projects produce marketable power immediately.
A recent development is floating solar on hydro and municipal reservoirs, and building it into roofs over canals, reducing evaporation, algae, and toxics production, without consuming land, and offering easy tie-in to existing distribution networks.
Such synergy is nowhere near exhausted. For example, a farm can erect a wind turbine far from distribution networks, and use the intermittent power to produce ammonia from just air and water. Ammonia is easily and cheaply stored indefinitely, and is directly useful as fertilizer injected directly into furrows behind plow blades. It is also directly useful as fuel for farm machinery, which can easily accommodate the somewhat larger tankage vs. diesel fuel.