Bill Gates on 60 Minutes just now.

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23. China just bought its 50th nuclear plant on line last week.

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It was built with endogenous infrastructure.

Most of the nuclear plants in China were built this century.

The price to be paid for cheap gas power, and the renewable energy lipstick on the gas pig will not be paid by the people in this generation who consumed the electricity. It will be paid by every generation that comes after us.

It will include the costs for cleaning up the electronic waste that every solar cell on the planet will be in 25 years.

I'm sure we're all falling all over ourselves with enthusiasm for lead based iodo perovskites. We just don't give a shit do we?

I'm consistently unimpressed by cost considerations that ignore external costs.

A nuclear plant built to last and operate 80 years is a gift to future generations. Of course we couldn't care less about future generations. This is a moral problem, not an economic one.

We think if we can charge up our stupid cobalt laced Tesla electric car at 15 cents per kilowatt when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, we've somehow discharged our moral responsibility.

I obviously hold this worldview in contempt.