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The problem is you need to burn alot of dead trees to make a dam and EROEI is dwindling too fast for this to become a viable option. Nuclear and hydro will neve
by bullen 6y ago
The problem is you need to burn alot of dead trees to make a dam and EROEI is dwindling too fast for this to become a viable option. Nuclear and hydro will never be rebuilt to the same level we have now.
- cbmuser 6y agoNuclear is being built in China like crazy. They‘re currently constructing 12 plants at the same time.
- bullen 6y agoChina has less reactors than france with 20x the population. They would need 1000 reactors to match. For a commodore user you are very optimistic about things getting better! More nuclear plants are getting closed than built.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's still a far cry from the 70's. My quick counting showed the US opening around 40 from 70-75.
- ryanmarsh 6y agoI hope they're better at running nuclear power plants than they are at running infectious disease labs.
- natmaka 6y agoNot really. In short: ((by 2035)) nuclear generating capacity ((will be)) 7.7% out of predicted total electricity generating capacity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China#History They, however, built renewables like crazy.
- varjag 6y agoNuclear has its own decommissioning and long term disposal problem.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoIf anything nuclear's problem is even more political than practical. We could fulfill the world's nuclear waste storage needs with a couple landfills if the will was there (though any geologist will tell you are better options than near surface storage). From an ecological perspective nuclear is the best option by a mile because the amount of stuff you need to pull out of the ground, move around, use and dispose of is so small per energy produced.
- varjag 6y agoIt's the same for hydro, the lack of political stakeholders in decomissioning process. I wasn't suggesting that it's physically impossible.
- bullen 6y agoNuclear has 1.000.000.000x the energy density of batteries so yes, but you need dead trees to build and maintain power lines, the power grid cannot be remade after it's current decline. Tiny local hydro (with natural dam) is the future, but getting a building permit is near impossible. (I leave it to the reader to guess why) We need to switch off electricity for everything except (low power) computers and networks. = hand pumped water, wood stove for water heater, earth cellar as fridge! Mass transports are completely over, grow/breed/preserve your food locally!
- bzbarsky 6y ago> wood stove for water heater Even ignoring the CO2 aspect, the particulate emissions from this would be quite problematic in any sort of dense area. Not to mention what fraction of those particulates would end up inside the house... Also, you don't mention heating (houses, not water). That is a huge part of energy consumption in many parts of the world.
- ryanmarsh 6y ago> the power grid cannot be remade What has changed such that you could not remake the power grid? Do we lack the raw materials or know how?