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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

its a post about uranium being at the top, so the message should be about primary energy generation (unlike sugar -nutritional energy, which is also in the pic)

Cost per gigawatt of installed capacity: Nuclear power: 7–10 billion euros per GW.
While Wind energy (onshore): 1–2 billion euros per GW. Wind energy (offshore): 2–4 billion euros per GW. Solar energy: 500 million to 1 billion euros per GW.

This is evident if you just look at the nuclear power companies like france (who is heavily into nuclear): State-owned EDF - 70 billion euro debt. These companies can't stay afloat because its that unlucrative and therefore need heavy subsidies.

Then you have environmental cost, which is the funny part, because we cant even evaluate the potential of the damage since we dont understand the effects fully. The scale in the cartoon is literally comedic compared to the half-life of nuclear waste. like 24000 years for plutonium and for uranium over billions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a post about logarithmic scales LOL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's also a post saying that there's a point to be made using the lack of a logarithmic scale, which is what this guy's pushing against.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

which by adding cost a linear scale would maybe make it fit