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>It’s funny seeing people in this thread jumping right past the root cause and suggesting elaborate solutions like nuclear power. The root cause is extreme wea
by konjin 6y ago
>It’s funny seeing people in this thread jumping right past the root cause and suggesting elaborate solutions like nuclear power.
The root cause is extreme weather events which will will get more of. Non-renewables are not affected by the wind and sun. Since we don't want to go extinct by pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere we are left with nuclear.
I don't understand how people can want to return to feudalism where land is the only way to extract energy from the sun. But given how NYC and SF treat workers perhaps I do.
- akamaka 6y agoDid you know that one third of US carbon emissions come from buildings? Upgrading buildings would massively reduce emissions, and we’d never have to generate the electricity in the first place. It pays for itself.
- konjin 6y agoDo you know that if electricity generation doesn't produce CO2 then consuming it won't either?
- katbyte 6y agowhat if we do both!
- imtringued 6y agoIf you are going to deploy an expensive method of power generation you better want to use that expensive power as efficiently as possible. The fact that you don't consider practical reality makes it sound like this is just a Santa wishlist of yours.
- konjin 6y agoNuclear power is only expensive to build. To run it's basically free, and unlike solar not limited to 6 hours in the middle of the day.
- imtringued 6y agoThe evidence is stacked against centralized power production. Centralized power production is highly unreliable. Nuclear power stops working during freezing weather and very hot weather where flow rates in rivers drop. Gas stops working when pipelines freeze. Coal plants are the primary cause of death via power generation because their pollution is worse than just CO2. Meanwhile people spend a lot of effort on predicting Solar and Wind and yet their expectations were more pessimistic compared to the actual energy production capacity that is online.
- konjin 6y ago>The evidence is stacked against centralized power production. Ok, show me.