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By comparison why dont solar, wind and pumped storage warrant such extreme and lavish taxpayer funded subsidies?


Nuclear receives a fraction of the subsidies that renewables do: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/2016_Ene...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...

And remember, "renewable" energy is really natural gas supplemented by wind and solar. There's no plan for a 100% renewable grid until some massive breakthrough in energy storage happens.




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