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To China's credit, they've just announced a ton of nuclear investment as well, something the United States no longer has the balls to do. This is (currently) _t
by m0zg 5y ago
To China's credit, they've just announced a ton of nuclear investment as well, something the United States no longer has the balls to do. This is (currently) _the only_ real solution to CO2 emissions that we have as a species, short of throwing billions of people back into poverty. The US prefers to pretend that solar is "it". But it's not, and it's never going to be, although its share will grow, of course.
All I'm saying is I don't think the world leaders perceive this as a problem at all. They perceive it as a money making opportunity, for themselves and their donors (maybe with the exception of Xi Jinping who doesn't need the money since he's not replaceable, and he can just take whatever he wants). Otherwise they wouldn't have flown to Glasgow in _four hundred_ private jets and wouldn't have driven around around in hundred car armored motorcades. A videoconference would more than suffice for what they "accomplished" there.
President of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen once took a plane to travel 31 miles [1]. That is not the behavior of a person who believes climate change to be a "problem".
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-air-miles-ursula-used-private-jet-travel-just-31-miles/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-a...
- ben_w 5y ago> But it's not, and it's never going to be, although its share will grow, of course. Unless we make fusion (or spacemagic which beats it), the future can’t be anything else. I’m expecting the world of 2121 to be 95% PV on an antipodal power grid. (It would take a while to build at that scale, but the sun never sets on such a grid).
- m0zg 5y agoRegardless of the progress on fusion and whatnot, China's move will force the US re-enter nuclear in the short term, if it decides to offer more than just platitudes to "climate crisis" goals. It's the only clean, abundant energy source supported by the sane and rational subset of both of the main parties.