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I would rather enjoy constant nuclear energy rather than be a slave for some device which dictates me when to cook or wash. People where is your fundamental freedom desire?

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> People where is your fundamental freedom desire?

Knowing the price of something you consume is taking away your fundamental freedom? If that's the case, you should probably stop looking at prices when making any purchases - all things from groceries, electronics, cars ... wouldn't want to lose more of it.

It goes to show how meaninglessly people now use that word - it's essential become a flag for "anything I like (or dislike)" with no bearing on reality.

In reality/history nuclear has often been the reason to introduce time of use pricing, to encourage people to move loads to the overnight demand lulls to better match nuclear's flat output.

So I guess that's one more flaw in the extreme anarchist case for more nuclear power.

The same argument can certainly be made for solar. To encourage you to use power while it's available, so for example only use your lights during the daytime hours.

Lights are such a minor power draw these days they’re almost a rounding error.

An electric car driven 30 miles per day is going to use 3000-9000 Wh, a 10 W LED left on overnight is going to use ~120 Wh.

The view of the European Union (aka German Green Party) is that Nukular Energy is not renewable or desirable. https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-nuclear-energy-good-for-...

That's not the view of the EU, many countries in it are heavily pro-nuclear and fighting to have it marked as "green".

Certain countries in the EU view that nuclear energy is not "green", not the whole EU. The European Commission will make a call very soon for the upcoming funding period and frankly it looks like they will support nuclear energy.

Surely that must be a politically motivated stance.

Germany is champion of hypocrisy: stopped nuclear plants and ramped up coal usage, now plans to build gas fired stations and labels them green.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec...

Not just any coal either. They opted for brown coal, the least efficient and most dirty kind.

>People where is your fundamental freedom desire?

This trait has been slowly but surely bred out of the modern population I think.

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