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While we're still perfecting the renewable situation we need to shut down all this coal bullshit ASAP and patch in nuclear. I guess people would rather be defin
by nategri 7y ago
While we're still perfecting the renewable situation we need to shut down all this coal bullshit ASAP and patch in nuclear. I guess people would rather be definitely killed by particulates and climate change rather than almost never killed by radiation---just because it sounds scarier. Madness.
- m463 7y agoI support nuclear too, but the fact is - nuclear is a political hot potato and encumbered by enormous financial uncertainty. If you wanted to spend $1B on energy, spending it on nuclear would be a crapshoot, while spending it on solar or solar + batteries would lead to implementation relatively quickly. It's unfortunate given this table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energy_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...
- ArtDev 7y ago"Nuclear power; the world's most expensive way to boil water". Luckily, there are many cheaper power alternatives that don't involve the problem of having to bury nuclear waste for THOUSANDS of years.
- dv_dt 7y agoYou have it backwards. We need to patch in fast-to-build renewable and imperfect storage capacity while continuing to research nuclear fusion. Fission plants however are both uneconomical and slow to build - to the point that even the fastest builds of already safety reviewed designs would not complete until after our fate in climate change is largely irreversibly decided.