@Qldaah energy policy and engineering gets just so much easier when you can say whatever

(seriously, the SMR concept has been bouncing around for decades. And it fails the revealed preferences test hard. If it actually did what it said on the tin then one could be funded through construction and commissioning by any one of its wealthy spruikers, say Bill Gates, out of the spare change behind their couch)

#smr #revealedpreferences

The global business lobby *loves* the idea of "#PersonalResponsibility" and its evil twin, "#CaveatEmptor." Its pet economists worship the idea of "#RevealedPreferences," claiming that when we use plastic, we may *claim* that we don't want to have our bodies poisoned with immortal, toxic microplastics, that we don't want our land and waters despoiled - but we *actually* love it, because otherwise we'd "vote with our wallets" for something else.

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