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In reply to the discussion: Georgia nuclear plant's cost now forecast to top $30 billion [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)People have some inkling that coal and oil are bad, and they know nuclear power can be dangerous, but natural gas is a fuel they are familiar with and it supports their fanciful solar and wind schemes.
So it must be good... after all it's "natural."
And Brawndo's go electrolytes!
Sigh. Slogans don't go far with me. I like math.
The greatest threat to world peace is fossil fuels, for two reasons. Fossil fuels power the industries that build war machines and the war machines themselves, and they are the cause of global warming which will ultimately displace billions of people from their homes.
Increasingly strife it the modern world can be attributed to climate change.
This conversation has, as commonly occurs on DU, diverged from a particular power plant in Georgia.
I think the U.S.A. is increasingly unable to manage multi-billion dollar projects of any kind.
We've not quite become a kleptocracy like Russia, but many unethical people are being unjustly rewarded despite their incompetence. Even incurious fools like Ronald Reagan or Trump can be President.
One always wonders how billions of dollars are spent to make really bad, almost incoherent movies, but those same systemic problems also exist in other high technology industries.