mmmm sounds like someone has zero concept of the scale of the problem: ie how much cable we’d need to bury. Simmer down Tony Snark, you’re demonstrably less clever than the rest of the species’ experts in this.
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drake@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours agoAre you fucking serious? Nuclear power plants cost way fucking more than some cables. You people are fundamentally so unserious. Pull your head out of a reactor for ten seconds and take reality as it exists
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
drake@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
You have no idea what you’re talking about. shut the fuck up, you pretentious cunt.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Maybe take a break from the doomscolling/doomposting and try to relax.
Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I think you need to touch grass. You sound very angry about some cables.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yes. They cost more than some cables. But we aren’t talking about wiring a stereo.
A new nuclear unit (4 billion-ish) costs about as much as 2,000 miles of transmission-grade cable (about 2 million per mile). Considering that there’s about 30 cables on a tower run, you’re looking at around 65 miles’ worth of cable for the cost of a nuclear unit.
And that’s just the cost of the wire. No towers, no conduit, no substations, no land acquisition (aerial easement and underground are very different things), no labor.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
In the USA the most recent two reactors (2 added to a plant that already had 2 existing) cost $34 billion just for the two new ones. source