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Nuclear is the best possible solution to climate change in the short term, but we definitely will not do it. Instead, we will do all of the worse solutions, tak
by skellington 4y ago
Nuclear is the best possible solution to climate change in the short term, but we definitely will not do it. Instead, we will do all of the worse solutions, take 50 years to transition (if ever), and do a bunch of harm on the way. TX is going to be forced to build more natural gas power plants.
- pfdietz 4y agoHow can that be? Nuclear plants take way too long to build; there's nothing "short term" about it.
- mwint 4y agoThey don’t have to take that long to build.
- pfdietz 4y agoYes, we can imagine the Nuclear Fairy waving her magic wand to give us NPPs. Here in the real world, we operate under constraints that we can't just wish away because that would be convenient for the point we're trying to defend. Among those constraints is the lack of organizational and industrial experience and infrastructure for effectively making new NPPs.
- mwint 4y agoIf it was seen as a high priority, we could do it. They put people on the moon in the 60’s in less time than people claim it’d take to build a power plant today. Ingredients for a quick transition to nuclear: 1. Gov’t must be willing to ignore NIMBY/BANANA people 2. Accept slightly more risk than zero 3. Aggressively poach people from countries with healthy nuclear programs and put them in charge of ours.
- azemetre 4y agoWhat does banana stand for? Searching, obviously, yields nothing fruitful.
- pfdietz 4y agoBuild Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone > nothing fruitful I see what you did there.
- pfdietz 4y agoThe Apollo program was achieving a technical result, not an economically competitive result. The systems produced by Apollo were unsustainably expensive. What you are proposing is, instead, to count on a centrally planned economic model to produce a competitive outcome. This is something the US is not very good at. It's also entirely unrealistic due to the scale of the activity that would be required.
- freemint 4y agoYou are aware climate change requires global solutions? Do you propose building nuclear power stations in every country regardless if it is a inept dictatorship, an religious fundamentalist theocracy or been at civil war for the last 15 out of 20 years?