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Well we have no solution for the byproducts of fossil fuels except to spew them into the atmosphere. So I'd say that nuclear fuel is superior. We're not going
by jcoq 5y ago
Well we have no solution for the byproducts of fossil fuels except to spew them into the atmosphere. So I'd say that nuclear fuel is superior.
We're not going to solve climate change while maintaining the same level of energy consumption without making some tradeoffs.
I feel like the environmentalist movement's sentimentalism is what helped to get us here. We change Earth - it's what humans do. We at least need it to be habitable.
Nuclear energy's risks are known and have solutions that exist today.
- envengineer 5y agoActually we have solutions for All those byproducts. Just as with NO2,SO2 capture was enabled after we found those are bad. We can scrub CO2 too. It is just a matter of cost. And desire.
- jcoq 5y agoYeah, and I think climate engineering is probably our only hope at this point. I've seen estimates that we could scrub about 1/5th of the carbon that gets emitted. So we still need to somehow reduce the emissions. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25259/negative-emissions-technologies-and-reliable-sequestration-a-research-agenda https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25259/negative-emissions-technol...