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Todays U.S. meeting "Roundtable on Ratepayer Protection Pledge" with the U.S. President himself leading that meeting garnished commitments from Big Tech as it relates to energy. In time Big Tech Energy divisions will be thing and some citizens will be paying their utilities bill to them.

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jeffbee

2 hours ago

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There are large solar power stations on the grid in California owned by tech firms so you may indeed already be paying, indirectly, Apple for energy.

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rgmerk

35 minutes ago

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Their hoped-for completion date is "2031". Anyone want to hazard a guess about what their actual completion date for this plant will be?

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mikeyouse

15 minutes ago

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Presumably it’ll end up like the NuScale one, raise a few billion for design and prototyping and then every 6 months or so increase the target wholesale price by 50% until it makes no sense at all economically to begin primary construction. They’ll reverse IPO along the way and manipulate the stock enough to get insiders paid out while the carcass of a company trundles along.

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rgmerk

9 minutes ago

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In theory, at least, they have finished their design, had it reviewed by the NRC, and had it approved, so there should be no significant design changes.

But that also applies for the current generation of reactors and nobody can build them to schedule or budget in the USA or Europe.

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willis936

33 minutes ago

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No, but I'm certain the polymarket gamblers do.

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rgmerk

13 minutes ago

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I did have the same thought, had a quick look (I'm not a polymarket user) and couldn't find a market relating to this project.

Put it this way, if it's in commercial operation by 2031 I'll eat my hat.

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josefritzishere

2 hours ago

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This is huge, historic even.

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stinkbeetle

27 minutes ago

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Great, hopefully the ship is turning around slowly. I have been hearing from pro-carbon "environmentalists" for 30 years that "we should have built nuclear 20 years ago but doing so now would be pointless". Meanwhile we may have just reached peak-coal today if we are lucky. Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say.