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Fair. Finding the balance for a wide audience between believable and exciting is tough. I'm usually good at it but in this case, it's my favorite concept in my field of expertise so I get a little too enthusiastic.

Here is a master's dissertation from MIT on the topic that goes into lots of good analysis: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/103707




Huh. In this entire conversation you've come across as a person way-overstating their case, and as a result being totally unbelievable and unconvincing. And in a thread which is off-topic for the posting, which is a poor choice of a place to engage at all.


I said one thing, people continued the conversation, I continued it with them. There's a collapse thread button for a reason. Yet here we are talking.

What part is least believable for you? Shipyard construction being cheap? Floating nukes being safe? Nukes being safe in the first place? Nukes being low-carbon? Many of these thing sound surprising because they go against pop culture but they're interesting in that the scientific consensus is fairly opposite of pop culture on this topic.




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