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  • Nuclear has a better value-adjusted levelized cost of energy. SMRs are very much developing but have been deployed in some areas outside the US.

    Sodium ion batteries are great for many reasons but also aren’t as energy dense, so you need a way larger footprint. I’m not saying we should only do one of the other, it’s all of the above. Also repurposed EVs aren’t really a thing at scale, nor does there seem to be that much investment into it from a quick search. The main investment is into full recycling of batteries.


  • That’s just… not true. Nuclear absolutely makes sense, it’s just that there’s not enough public appetite for it. In particular, small modular reactors (SMRs) are very much needed for distributed power generation.

    There’s not enough storage with renewables that can compete with nuclear. The technology that currently exists doesn’t scale from a cost perspective, which is why the storage startup space has become so hot in the last 5 years.



  • Not primarily. I think it’s simultaneously to steal oil, as is tradition with American Republicans, and also to cover any domestic issues. The fact that Trump raped dozens of kids, and he deleted and redacted millions of documents to cover that up, is one of those domestic issues. The others are the economy, ICE being a gestapo that disappears anyone the regime doesn’t like, and the establishment of “quick reaction forces” in the US military to deploy against protesters (look it up, it’s real).

    We about to get really hot here in America.











  • The MAGA base is too anti-interventionist now.

    The MAGA base will think anything that Newsmax, OANN, and Fox tells them. I’ve seen it happen in real time, multiple times now. They wouldn’t be MAGA still if they had any morals or critical thinking capabilities.

    Trump won’t go all in just yet, just try to provoke an attack (or stage a false flag) to give pretense to crack down on their land. Preceded of course by some covert bombing to soften their SAM defenses.