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minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50arrow-down10·1 day agoYeah, because it’ll tie budgets up for ten years building it, and in the meantime all the fossil fuel people can tap those final nails into our coffin while they line their pockets.
minus-squareleisesprecher@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·1 day agoTen years? More like twenty. Hinkley point C was started in 2013, supposed to be finished 2023. This year the estimation was corrected to 2029-2031.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·19 hours agoAnd even if they do finally build it, it’s still a centralized system that regulatory-captured monopoly utilities can gouge the public on. Solar and wind threaten them by being decentralized as well as by not relying on fossil fuels.
minus-squarems.lane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·23 hours agoMoving transport entirely over to the energy grid is going to take more energy than we currently generate - who’d of thought!
Yeah, because it’ll tie budgets up for ten years building it, and in the meantime all the fossil fuel people can tap those final nails into our coffin while they line their pockets.
Ten years? More like twenty. Hinkley point C was started in 2013, supposed to be finished 2023. This year the estimation was corrected to 2029-2031.
And even if they do finally build it, it’s still a centralized system that regulatory-captured monopoly utilities can gouge the public on.
Solar and wind threaten them by being decentralized as well as by not relying on fossil fuels.
Moving transport entirely over to the energy grid is going to take more energy than we currently generate - who’d of thought!