FTA: “At some point, we have to say, ‘OK, this is cool stuff, but we have not been for whatever reason able to create an industry that can deliver at scale and on time, and that means this is not an industry that can compete with the real markets today.”
There is a kind of comedy to wide-scale opposition to nuclear energy defining a generation fearful of weapons and unsafe disposal, with decades of lobbying and propaganda to recuperate nuclear energy's reputation finally being successful across multiple political ideologies only for the technology to get financially curb-stomped by solar and wind. The anti-nuclear people won in perhaps the most hilarious way possible.
America's power grid is crying 'we need every megawatt we can get' while data centers chomp through enough power for 40 million homes by 2030.
. So I ordered two more add’l battery packs to enhance the one we already have. Bought the first one with a portable solar power generator which can re-charge it in a few hours of sun. We’ll use that to charge the new ones as well. In an ideal, people-first world, battery backup on a neighborhood scale would be automatically provided by local and regional governments. That would make sense financially over the long run, and save lives right away and in perpetuity. I’m not holding my breath, tho… 
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