Wang's gratuitous swipe at nuclear's costs ignores the fact that, thanks to its insane energy density, nuclear could be cheap and indeed in the late 1960's was cheap, 3 cents/kWh cheap in totdays money, and we are talking dispatchable, inertia rich power.
Wang's gratuitous swipe at nuclear's costs ignores the fact that, thanks to its insane energy density, nuclear could be cheap and indeed in the late 1960's was cheap, 3 cents/kWh cheap in totdays money, and we are talking dispatchable, inertia rich power.
https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/nuclear-power-not-only-should-be
The key question for true Abundance is why is nuclear's present cost in the west 5+ times it's should-cost.
A valuable and on-target assessment. It appears to confirms many of the points we cover in our course, Energy and Civilization, at U C Berkeley: https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1504904/pages/fall-2024-homepage