Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Inside the $1.6B Plan to Restart Three Mile Island | WSJ" video.

I'm an engineer who does support the use of nuclear energy BUT IT HAS TO BE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. And for the rest of us (as in everyone on the planet) to pay for these power stations JUST SO BILL GATES and the rest of the AI brigade CAN MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY is NOT the right reason. I'm Australian and we are also having nuclear shoved at us right now and every so often the proponents slip up and in among all the things they claim that will benefit are "data centres." This is one of the things that people don't yet realise. Not only do these people need our data (in staggering amounts) to make the AIs work BUT THEY WANT US TO PAY THEM TO POWER IT. We are being sold one of the biggest lies in human history.
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@pliat That's sadly true.
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@louf7178 YEP - Billy Gates and his AI brigade think that their spending a few billion on data centres means the rest of humanity needs to spend a few HUNDRED BILLION to power them and that we ARE GETTING A GOOD DEAL.
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@dafunkmonster AND HERE'S ANOTHER POINT. It takes at least 10 years to build nuclear, Just getting it approved takes time and AT best the build time is at least 8 years. If you think you can reduce the average energy bill by $1000 a year (which is feasible) then if you say we'll do it with nuclear then you just said EVERY HOUSE will pay an extra 10,000 over the next decade. AND HERE'S THE CATCH - No matter what we chose to do it all takes time and until we get stuff built people will keep paying high prices.
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