UK nuclear plant hit by new multiyear delay and could cost up to £35bn
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Latest overrun to Hinkley Point C a blow to UK energy plans and French constructor EDF
    • Vathsade@lemmy.caEnglish
      123·
      6 months ago

      We need to accept a premium for the cleanest and safest baseload generation we have.

      • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
        1110·
        6 months ago

        You can build a lot of batteries for 35 billion. And those don’t produce waste that you have to store for millennia.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      91·
      6 months ago

      At the cost it comes in at, it competes with longer-duration energy storage. Very expensive, and only has value to the extent that it reduces the need to build storage instead.

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
      35·
      6 months ago

      My bet that is sarcasm and people are stupidly downvoting you.

      No one seems to get sarcasm on this website.