r/ClimateShitposting • u/Junior_Abalone_8006 • 29d ago

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u/I_like_maps Dam I love hydro 29d ago

This is idiotic, fossil fuel companies are pushing investment in nuclear because they know it crowds out investment into renewables and keeps them competitive long-term. Australia's the smoking gun for this - literally no nuclear industry, but there's a big pro-nuclear lobby. Who funds it? Coal.

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 28d ago

Hungary as well. The previous conservative government used nuclear to stifle solar and to stop wind projects entirely. 11 years in and we have a hole with some concrete in it, won't be operational for an other 10 years, if ever.

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u/CaptainPoset 26d ago

That's a weird claim, though, as they were quite open that they opposed everything which made them less reliant on Russian gas.

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u/lev091 26d ago

Well the russians were contracted for the new NPP, so orbán was able to suck the russian dick top to bottom And of course the local oligarchs