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Without GMO foods you'd already be starving. Also GMO is another great example about emotional based arguments - corn is GMO grass from cross breading. Yes, t
by EricE 6y ago
Without GMO foods you'd already be starving. Also GMO is another great example about emotional based arguments - corn is GMO grass from cross breading. Yes, they did it over hundreds of years instead of a few dozen in a lab - but it's still GMO.
As for nuclear, molten salt reactors are also well understood technology. There are new designs that address many of the issues with current reactors. And the burn the existing waste. Instead of arguing about where to bury it, let's use it for energy!
More smaller distributed reactors also help dramatically lower transmission costs and reduce our vulnerability we currently have with our fragile electrical grid.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/2020/10/13/new-design-molten-salt-reactor-is-cheaper-to-run-consumes-nuclear-waste/?sh=5057fc5533c6 https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/2020/10/13/new-de...
That's just one article - there is plenty more out there. Pretty sad when China is the biggest proponent of molten salt reactors.
Energy drove the industrial revolution. Access to abundant and plentiful energy did more to lift the majority of the world population out of poverty and into relative opulence. Think opulence is outlandish? We can walk over to a thing on a wall and adjust the temperature of our dwellings - if you don't appreciate how significant that is just consider as little as a few hundred years ago even Kings didn't have that luxury.
Nuclear is here. It's well understood. It works all the time - whether the sun is out or the wind is blowing. It doesn't require acres of space nor does it kill millions of birds. It doesn't generate noise pollution. Yes it has some maintenance costs - every technology does. If you truly look at it holistically, it's pretty hard to argue against it.