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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whether blocking the wind farm was a good move or a stupid move depends very much on whether the project was over budget. Completing something just bc something is 80% done is the "sunk cost" fallacy i.e. "We've spent so much already we have to make it worthwhile."

It could be like Biden's EV program: billions spent, few charging stations constructed.

Sometimes ya just gotta pull the plug. So to speak.

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But yanno, SIX, some projects are worthwhile. For the first time EVER, we haven't had a "save your power" flexalert, and no threatened or actual outages. Yay!
I personally think that's due to so many rooftop panels and parking lot solar canopies installed lately, producing electricity in the relentless sunshine. Two of my neighbors just installed solar panels and they're happy, happy, happy with the results! Even my fair city installed solar canopies lately on all of their school and city center parking lots.

Maybe the wind farm would make sense too.



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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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In 1969, the U.S. was flipping the switch on three new nuclear reactors a year—fast, efficient, and powering millions of homes. Then, almost overnight, the industry collapsed, not because of accidents like Three Mile Island, but because of a single rule that changed everything. This video uncovers the little-known story of how fear, regulation, and economics killed America’s nuclear momentum. And why small modular reactors might finally bring it back.

*Chapters:*
00:00 We Suddenly Stopped
01:05 The Radiation Scare
02:45 Your Daily Radiation
04:25 The Actual Result of the Meltdowns
05:54 Linear No-Threshold
07:47 Nuclear Plant Economics
11:09 The Energy Tradeoff
15:55 Small Modular Reactors

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whether blocking the wind farm was a good move or a stupid move depends very much on whether the project was over budget. Completing something just bc something is 80% done is the "sunk cost" fallacy i.e. "We've spent so much already we have to make it worthwhile."

It could be like Biden's EV program: billions spent, few charging stations constructed.

Sometimes ya just gotta pull the plug. So to speak.

*****

But yanno, SIX, some projects are worthwhile. For the first time EVER, we haven't had a "save your power" flexalert, and no threatened or actual outages. Yay!
I personally think that's due to so many rooftop panels and parking lot solar canopies installed lately, producing electricity in the relentless sunshine. Two of my neighbors just installed solar panels and they're happy, happy, happy with the results! Even my fair city installed solar canopies lately on all of their school and city center parking lots.

Maybe the wind farm would make sense too.



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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your insistence on The One Big Solution ( nuclear or nothing,) or the One Sweeping Opinion, (nobody died of Covid) is flawed, all- or- nothing thinking. It appeals to your, er ... colorful... personality but it's not how the world usually works.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


Did you watch the video?

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