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New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

ViewTrick1002 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:50:03 +0000

Last spring, there was some kind of payment outage at my local grocery store, so only cash was accepted.

The cash register rejected about a third of the bills I had been keeping in my wallet, simply because they had become so battered from sitting there.

That's the state of cashless in Sweden today.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

ViewTrick1002 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:08:56 +0000

Please re-check your numbers, since they’re all wrong.

For example, the world deployed 1600 GWh batteries in 2025.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

ViewTrick1002 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:01:27 +0000

I would check out these recent articles. They’ve taken the step to model the entire grid hour by hour.

This is of course not how reality will play out, since the grid is market driven, but it’s quite interesting to see the results.

Denmark 2026:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422...

Finland 2025:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422...

Australia 2025–26:

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Ele...

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

ViewTrick1002 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:47:35 +0000

I have a hard time taking you seriously when you claim that Germany replaced nuclear with fossil gas. It has been roughly flat for the past 20 years while coal generation collapsed, renewables exploded and nuclear disappeared.

And this still assumes that rebuilding a nuclear industry somehow is an end in itself. It isn't.

The objective is to decarbonize society. Not construt nuclear reactors. We don't have any special obligation to build new nuclear, anymore more than there was an obligation to keep building oil-fired power plants once they stopped making economic sense.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

ViewTrick1002 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:39:31 +0000

Those system cost analyses easily solve, at far lower costs than involving new nuclear.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

ViewTrick1002 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:44:44 +0000

Which is like in the polar high north of the arctic circle?

What’s the relevance?

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

ViewTrick1002 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:43:53 +0000

Which is why the best possible days for the first EPR2 reactor in France is 2038 with massive state support.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

ViewTrick1002 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:38:03 +0000

Or just build renewables and storage? Distributed and extremely cheap.

The answer twenty years ago is not the same as the one today.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

ViewTrick1002 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:14:59 +0000

Nuclear weapons or nuclear power?

Weapons yes, power seems quite stupid given the costs and lead times.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:59:17 +0000

That’s exactly why I prefer whole-system modelling over simple LCOE comparisons. Backup, seasonal balancing, transmission, lifetime and integration costs all need to be accounted for.

What I find interesting is that the system studies I’ve been looking at, from Australia to Denmark and Finland, still don’t find new nuclear improving the least-cost outcome.

And they’re not assuming another Vogtle, Flamanville or Hinkley. They generally give nuclear much more optimistic NOAK or adjusted future costs.

So I’m curious: what system-cost study are you relying on that reaches the opposite conclusion?

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:37:08 +0000

I’ll take that as confirmation that you can’t identify a single false claim.

Which is unsurprising, since all six are based on publicly available information.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:43:18 +0000

Which bullet is false? Be specific.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:20:50 +0000

The Price-Anderson act and equivalents around the world tells a different story.

In Sweden in 2022 the right wing coalition which won promised new nuclear would appear if only it was allowed. Quickly they abandoned large scale nuclear in favor of SMR, PowerPoints reactors are always cheap.

Four years later, we are at:

- The state takes essentially all financial risk, even borrowing the money because Vattenfall refuses to put it on its own balance sheet.

- The state provides a huge direct taxpayer handout.

- The state takes the construction risk. Cost overruns means taxpayers put in more.

- The state subsidizes the entire final waste repository.

- The state subsidizes roughly the entire accident liability.

- The state guarantees the electricity price for 40 years.

That rather proves the point about what happens when new nuclear meets actual financing conditions.

And right wing coaltion just lost the latest election two weeks ago. Seems like we didn't get any new nuclear after all.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:57:05 +0000

Given that the nuclear industry would shut down overnight if having to pay its own insurance costs it’s quite hard to take you seriously when you say it’s not subsidized.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:55:04 +0000

How many hundreds of billions or trillions should we waste to get ”learnings” when renewables and storage is already the cheapest energy source in human history?

This line of thinking seems to start with that we must have new nuclear, for some reason, and then try to rationalize it.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:52:13 +0000

That is 210 MW thermal. Which would produce about 70 MW electricity.

$2.8B for 70 MW is insanely expensive.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor"

ViewTrick1002 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:37:16 +0000

This assumes learning rates never seen by nuclear energy. Within generations we've seen small learnings, and between generations the nuclear energy has been all negative learning by doing.

New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon"

ViewTrick1002 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:25:30 +0000

That’s for the whole economy.

Transport is generally put at - 15-25% increase. Due to both needing less refinement and transport, and just how efficient BEVs are.

Deep Fission ($FISN): A Money Pit

ViewTrick1002 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:46:32 +0000

Article URL: https://iceberg-research.com/2026/09/24/deep-fission-fisn-a-money-pit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841417

Points: 2

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New comment by ViewTrick1002 in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

ViewTrick1002 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:42:43 +0000

We did try to build nuclear. Massive subsidy programs were created, it just didn’t deliver.