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The way nuclear is always pushed like this on Reddit and Hacker News makes me wonder if there is a PR company behind these posts If they are, are they acting i

by slifin 10y ago

The way nuclear is always pushed like this on Reddit and Hacker News makes me wonder if there is a PR company behind these posts If they are, are they acting in our collective interests? I frankly don't even know My gut feeling is I'd rather have wind solar hydro or something green on my door step

dandelion_lover 10y ago
The push is driven by the people who do not believe their "gut feeling", but are trying to understand the depth of the problem, me included.
digi_owl 10y ago
> The way nuclear is always pushed like this on Reddit and Hacker News makes me wonder if there is a PR company behind these posts Damn hard to tell.
ageofwant 10y ago
Do not believe everything you think, your "gut" is about as trustworthy a source of data as any other organ. Have you considered that this really is just reality as it is ?
witty_username 10y ago
Nuclear power is green.
sliverstorm 10y ago
The audience of these sites are generally liberal (aka green), interested in technology, and young (not adults in the Cold War era, where a lot of the fear of nuclear originated). It doesn't seem odd to me that there would be interest in nuclear.
lmm 10y ago
You can check people's post history. The tone doesn't seem very PR-company-ey to me, shrug. Nuclear is greener by most reasonable measures. Wind and solar don't scale (and kill people during installation/maintenance, and in the case of solar require a lot of environmentally-damaging mining); hydro renders larger areas uninhabitable during business-as-usual than nuclear does in disaster scenarios, and leads to many more deaths in proportion to the energy produced.
closeparen 10y ago
>My gut feeling is I'd rather have wind solar hydro or something green on my door step So would approximately everyone, but right now a green-power-only world would mean crushing energy scarcity and spiking prices. For the time being, we have to let through coal, natural gas, or nuclear, and our argument is that nuclear is far and away the least bad option of those three. Wanting energy sources that have minimal environmental impact and no risk of large environmental impact is great, but you have to hold that position as strongly against coal as you do against nuclear or we just get more coal, which is a great deal worse.

by slifin 10y ago

dandelion_lover 10y ago

The push is driven by the people who do not believe their "gut feeling", but are trying to understand the depth of the problem, me included.

digi_owl 10y ago

> The way nuclear is always pushed like this on Reddit and Hacker News makes me wonder if there is a PR company behind these posts Damn hard to tell.

ageofwant 10y ago

Do not believe everything you think, your "gut" is about as trustworthy a source of data as any other organ. Have you considered that this really is just reality as it is ?

witty_username 10y ago

Nuclear power is green.

sliverstorm 10y ago

The audience of these sites are generally liberal (aka green), interested in technology, and young (not adults in the Cold War era, where a lot of the fear of nuclear originated). It doesn't seem odd to me that there would be interest in nuclear.

lmm 10y ago

You can check people's post history. The tone doesn't seem very PR-company-ey to me, shrug. Nuclear is greener by most reasonable measures. Wind and solar don't scale (and kill people during installation/maintenance, and in the case of solar require a lot of environmentally-damaging mining); hydro renders larger areas uninhabitable during business-as-usual than nuclear does in disaster scenarios, and leads to many more deaths in proportion to the energy produced.

closeparen 10y ago

>My gut feeling is I'd rather have wind solar hydro or something green on my door step So would approximately everyone, but right now a green-power-only world would mean crushing energy scarcity and spiking prices. For the time being, we have to let through coal, natural gas, or nuclear, and our argument is that nuclear is far and away the least bad option of those three. Wanting energy sources that have minimal environmental impact and no risk of large environmental impact is great, but you have to hold that position as strongly against coal as you do against nuclear or we just get more coal, which is a great deal worse.