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Robert Bryce
Personal blog · robertbryce.substack.comscienceeconomics
Robert Bryce's personal blog at robertbryce.substack.com covers science and economics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Substack posts on energy subsidies, including one that divides subsidies received by energy produced for solar, wind, nuclear and oil and gas. One commenter cites it as the basis for an article's claim.
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Energy, power, innovation, and politics.
What Hacker News says?
Article bases its claim on this piece: https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/actually-solar-is-getting... Which does some back-of-napkin math that may be accurate, but ignores some very important issues in the process: The numbers are [subsidies received] divided by [units of energy produced] for 2022. Now, let's take nuclear: 'of course' a nuclear power plant built 50y ago was built without using any kind of gov't mon…
Comment linking /p/actually-solar-is-getting-302-times
on “Solar, Wind Energy Get Hundreds of Times More Tax Incentives Than Oil and Gas”Submitted The Energy Transition Isn’t as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons to be Skeptical about SMRs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion