Bjørn Lomborg

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin · 18 Nov 2022 podcast

And Andy's absolutely right to talk about.

So existing new clip house plans, we already paid for them.

We already have them.

We already committed to decommissioning them eventually.

While they're running, they're pretty much the cheapest power you can possibly have on the planet because it costs almost nothing to run them day to day.

So it's basically cheap or almost free CO2 baseload power.

There's just nothing there that you should embrace.

Now,

New nuclear power plants turn out to be very expensive currently.

So the one they built in Finland, some in the UK and France and several other places turn out to be incredibly expensive.

So they're much more expensive than the costliest renewables you can imagine.

So they're actually not a solution right now.

And that's why we need the innovation.

That's why we need the potentially fourth generation nuclear power.

It's just simply, it's a bad deal.

And that's why nuclear is never going to win on its third generation.

Now, it may never get there.

Who knows?

But it's certainly a possibility and we should be looking into it.

I'll probably say that I think it's more sort of, at least the thing that I take away from Alex is the fact, as you point out, that we need to recognize that fossil fuels is basically the backbone of our society today.

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