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by forum_ghost 1444 days ago
Why is a nuclear reactor in the sky "renewable", but a nuclear reactor in France isn't?
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I will direct your question to a uranium miner.

In any case, NG aside the important distinction nowadays is between technologies with and without substantial opex: NG, nukes and geo are on one side, wind and solar on the other. And capex, same division except NG generation infrastructure is readily retrofitted for synthetic fuel.

Wind and solar are so radically much cheaper all around that it makes no sense to talk about building anything else.

Because for one we literally pull some resource we have a finite amount of out of the ground, while for other one, we do not.