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We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't (erikmcclure.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quite frankly, I am interested in the actual answer. My gut feeling is that renewables received more R&D than nuclear fission but I would be happy to correct my misconception there. But the IEA numbers are really small. 1.3 billions for 2 years of nuclear R&D? France's CEA, that oversees nuclear R&D (among other things, but mainly) has a 5 billions yearly budget.

R&D of the 21 top leading solar firms has exceeded the billion since 2017: https://www.actu-solaire.fr/a-10681-les-depenses-de-r-d-dans-le-photovoltaique-depuis-cinq-ans.html

The IEA numbers seem biased in that they just include a fistful of countries. They do not include China (that does a ton of solar R&D) and include France (one of the last to do nuclear research).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

CEA also hosts ITER and France pays 40% of the costs for that. It might go throu CEA. I honestly do not know.