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It seems like the solution to both problems is the same. We need far far more nuclear power plants to get off of oil and coal. Can we convert the plutonium or w

• epistasis 7y ago
  Nuclear is no longer a climate solution since it unfortunately takes too long to build and scale. Modern economies do not have the skills for this. We do have the skills for massive amounts of thin film production that's necessary for solar and lithium ion batteries. And somehow, we are massively reducing the cost of wind as we scale to ever larger turbines! We need to lean into our current tech skills, particularly those that get cheaper as we deploy more of it. That description does not fit nuclear, as it has a negative learning curve for costs.
  • umvi 7y ago
    > We do have the skills for massive amounts of thin film production that's necessary for solar and lithium ion batteries. And somehow, we are massively reducing the cost of wind as we scale to ever larger turbines! Don't wind farms actually warm the earth by robbing kinetic energy from the wind (which cools the earth)? I read that local climates actually get warmer where there are huge wind farms
    • adrianN 7y ago
      Wind doesn't cool the Earth globally. It's just movement of air masses because of uneven heating by the sun. There are localized effects of wind farms, but they don't add any energy to the climate system.