John Moore
1 min readNov 1, 2022

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Georgia is not using modular nukes. Plus, environmentalists and NIMBY's are the main obstacle to nuclear (i.e. clean AND reliable) power.

Other countries can build nukes much faster at a much lower cost. Think about that.

BTW, the small modular nuclear reactor concept is a way to reduce permitting time, but it still doesn't handle the political opposition. It isn't an accident that most early models of that will be built in other countries.

Addressing the rest of your comment - it is missing something critical: costs. Wind farms require very high costs if you are to load share across long distances, plus storage is so expensive as to simply not be economically possible.

Also, how many wind advocates have been in wind farms. They are not environmentally benign - they are huge, skyscraper sized monstrosities, connected by a network of roads that cuts up the natural land and makes crops impossible, and they make noises so people cannot live near them.

And that doesn't count the environmental costs of the cobalt and rare earths that go into the giant turbines, nor the impact of giant transmission lines.

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John Moore
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