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by AtlasBarfed 866 days ago
* don't turn off nuclear plants

--- I agree

* invest in more cost effective nuclear power

--- I could diatribe about this a long time, but basically I think solid fuel is a dead end in nuclear plant economics, but the entire industry is focused on solid fuel rod huge pressurized dome. I think truly effective nuclear will take a lot of government investment and novel thinking. Or materials breakthroughs that make LFTR/MSRs cheap.

* invest in more effective energy storage

-- EVs will take care of this, probably sulfur batteries

* don't pretend that energy infrastructure can be legislated into existence

-- it can be subsidized effectively though. See: china.