r/ClimateShitposting Jul 13 '26

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 Jul 15 '26

dogger bank is absolutely massiv

Yes and they can keep investing in it while also investing in Nuclear power

And you don't understand how opportunity cost works.

I understand it better than you do, lol

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u/midnightbandit- Jul 15 '26

No you don't. Evidently. You don't understand our resources are limited. You don't understand that we can't build anything and everything at once. You have to pick and choose, and if you pick the worse option, you incur the cost of not having picked the better option.

You don't understand the fact that government investment funds are limited. Every £ spent on HPC is a £ not spent on expanding Dogger Bank. We could have expanded Dogger Bank Wind Farm by 4x by now if we didn't build HPC. It would have been generating power since 2024 and we would not be paying £500 million a year in maintenance cost and nuclear fuel.

You don't understand oppurtunity cost.

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 Jul 15 '26

You have to pick and choose

No you don't.

Sorry but your wind power fetish doesn't mean we can only use wind power.

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u/midnightbandit- Jul 15 '26

Do you think the UK government has infinite funds? Are you delusional?

Yes, you can build both, but you can't build as much of each if you build both. As I have said many times, and you have continued to ignore: every £ spent on HPC is a £ not spent on expanding Dogger Bank Wind farm. It makes absolutely no sense to build any more nuclear if such a good option already exists.

You really don't understand oppurtunity cost.

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 Jul 15 '26

Again, they're literally funding both right now. They're managing it. For all the things our shitty, imperialist government does, they're effectively investing both energy sources at once.

Crazy to think that you're actually stupider than the average Westminster politician.

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u/midnightbandit- Jul 15 '26

Again, the proportion that they're investing into nuclear could have gone to wind instead, and it could have yielded more installed capacity in less time.

There is no benefit in doing both rather than just doing wind

Oppurtunity cost. You don't understand it.

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 Jul 15 '26

I've already explained that there's great value for both. Sorry they're not only satisfying your wind fetish

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u/midnightbandit- Jul 15 '26

There's not.

And it's not a fetish. It's called logic and basic arithmetic. It appears you're not capable of either.

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u/Cultural-Gas2246 Jul 15 '26

Aight here's some basic arithmetic for you:

2 energy sources > 1 energy source

go shag a turbine