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> (solar, wind, etc) has such a strong tailwind. Do they? I love renewables but for some reason the masses still just don't think you can get enough energy out
by dangerface 6y ago
> (solar, wind, etc) has such a strong tailwind.
Do they? I love renewables but for some reason the masses still just don't think you can get enough energy out of sky farts and hippy sun rays. The fact that ALL energy in our solar system comes from the sun is irrelevant the sun just doesn't feel very powerful. The public knows that nuclear is super powerful.
> how do you convince a public that has seen Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima to get on board?
The same way we convinced people to build them after Hiroshima. The same way we currently convince people to build coal plants when there are better alternatives. People want energy and they don't really care about the environmental / human cost.
- aqme28 6y agoPeople aren't afraid of solar panels, and the tailwind probably refers to the fact that they're getting cheaper at an extremely rapid pace.
- dangerface 6y agoPeople are afraid of having no energy, they think the sun is too weak to provide that energy and so we must burn things like coal, gas, oil, uranium whatever, see detritus reply as an example.
- detritus 6y ago> The fact that ALL energy in our solar system comes from the sun is irrelevant Except human-made nuclear fission energy on Earth, somewhat ironically, given the thread.
- aqme28 6y agoAnd geothermal.
- dangerface 6y agoahhh you got me thats the only other source of energy in our solar system but thats the exception that proves the rule.
- dangerface 6y agoThe fuel burned in those reactors comes from the sun and the reactor releases it.
- adrianN 6y agoThe fuel in fact doesn't come from the Sun, but from other stars that went super nova before the solar system was formed. Normal fusion in stars in not hot enough to produce such heavy elements.
- dangerface 6y agoThanks, I didn't know that I thought it was like the rest.
- adrianN 6y agoYou may find this chart interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis#/media/File:Nucleosynthesis_periodic_table.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis#/media...
- detritus 6y agoI'd love to know more about how heavy elements got from the sun into the interior of our planet and then back out to near the surface again. Where can I learn about this process?
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