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Well, Finland has a new problem, and their new problem is they have so much green and cheap electricity that the price temporarily went negative. Now in the real world it wasn't actually negative, but the price of electricity basically dropped to zero. Do you know why? Take a guess why Finland's electricity went to zero. Is there any idea? And also it was green, right? It's totally green nuclear. Yeah, they just opened a big nuclear plant. Now they also had lots of water this year, so their hydro, you know, their dams and stuff, also were producing record electricity. But at the same time that the nuclear plant went online and started just pumping it out, so for a while Finland's energy costs for consumers was almost zero.
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d they get there? They did the obvious things: nuclear, and if you have it, hydro. So are you still worried about climate change if you could drive your electricity cost down to close to zero at the same time that you're getting rid of all the carbon emissions? No, I feel like we have a solution here, and it's just screaming at us: nuclear. Well, I saw an article that said Bill Gates thinks that…
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