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Steve Mudge's avatar

I'm glad that Texas is going big on this but with their profit centric utilities I highly doubt you'll get the $10 electric bill. I lived in Fort Worth for 14 years and only had "cheap" electric bills around 2006-2008. Ever since, Ercot has been gouging a place that should have ridiculously cheap energy considering it's massive oil, natural gas, solar, and wind resources (plus existing nuclear plants). I pay far less in NM these days, I wish they'd put the nuke's here.

This reminds me of the days when the San Onofre nuclear plant in CA was built--before regulations and environmental issues made the industry top heavy. Even then the promise of almost free energy never came to fruition (I remember this as a fifth grader whose class went on a field trip to tour the shiny new plant). Is it it because of unforeseen costs or too many greedy hands feeding at the trough?

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H. Robb Levinsky's avatar

The problem is that you over do and end up sounding like a shill for the nuclear industry. You're the flip side of the anti nuclear zealots. This was interesting information for sure but would have been much more credible if u had explored the pros and cons of this technology honestly

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