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Doomberg & Steve Keen: The Green New Deal and Energy Security

Forward Guidance

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Do You Agree With the Domburg Values?

Steve Domburg: Nuclear power stations could be produced much more rapidly and a much safer than the general population believes they are. The rate limiting constraint for nuclear power is not lack of workable reactor designs, he says; it's politics. We don't yet have mass production systems for nuclear power stations,. So I'd say that the first thing is to get wind and solar ramped up dramatically. And then while you're doing that also ramp up your capacity to produce nuclear power stations. That will be causing a spark in your usage of fossil fuels to produce non-fossil fuel power stations. He argues rationing is not going to be a winner in the West at least until

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