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Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Worst Case Scenario for Nuclear Power
My biggest concern is this, scaling nuclear power assumes an indefinite continuation of civilization complexity. If there's suddenly a civilization breakpoint and we have 450 or 1,450 nuclear plants that all run out of diesel for their generators as backup, that could be a really disastrous situation. In the world of trade-offs, what happens in a world where we are all vaporized, sort of Star Trek style, it's kind of a Pascal's Wager situation anyway because we won't be around to see it.
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