[nishantk]

Guys guys, hear me out. What if we took a nuke and instead of exploding it outside, explode it inside and capture the energy into electricity.

[tstrimple]

Let me know when you find someone to pay for it. Energy companies take one look at the ROI for nuclear and run the other way. What for-profit company is going to look at a multi-billion dollar capex project which will take at least a decade and may never be completed that will take another couple decades to recoup the cost and say "This looks like a smart investment!"? Wind turbines and grid scale solar are only controversial to weird fringe groups and have a safe ROI.

[prepend]

I suppose you could look at the list of nuke plant operators [0] who do not run the other way and instead choose to keep operating. Many of these are for profit.

This is easy to look up. Duke Energy is one of the biggest companies in the world and definitely for profit. What makes you think they don’t want to invest in new plants?

[0] https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow...

[zshrdlu]

You've gotta learn to stop worrying and embrace the petro-dollar.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

No nukes needed. Just tap into Yellowstone.