If there's at least one thing I can agree on with the Rep/lean Rep in this chart is would definitely be on nuclear. I personally don't got beef with it so long as we find a better way of disposing the resulting waste than just burying it ( unless we already have a better, more effective and efficient method ).
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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you could hug a dry cask and get less radiation exposure than from eating a banana. From a technical standpoint, it's a solved problem.
kyle hill on youtube has a video on this.
We can clearly see how stupid Republicans and Republican leaning voters are from this chart alone. You have to be all kinds of stupid to think expanding coal, offshore drilling, and fracking are good ideas. May every supporter have runoff in their drinking water. We need another pandemic.
The real sadness is nuclear.
We have a clean source of energy that could have prevented countless deaths, that we chose not to use. And the saddest part is because we chose not to use it it grew far more expensive thanks to negative learning.
Overnight construction cost per kilowatt hour in the United States:
Meanwhile in France, where they continued to build:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516300106#f0030