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Well it's not happening fast enough for most climate change alarmists to consider building nuclear power. If it's such a threat surely we would trade nuclear wa
by proc0 3y ago
Well it's not happening fast enough for most climate change alarmists to consider building nuclear power. If it's such a threat surely we would trade nuclear waste problems for climate change.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoNuclear appears to have two problems: it takes so long to build reactors that their solution comes too late, and they are way more expensive than renewables. I don’t have a problem with nuclear, but if wind (or solar) and storage is faster and cheaper, why bother?
- proc0 3y ago> I don’t have a problem with nuclear, but if wind (or solar) and storage is faster and cheaper, why bother? My understanding is that once nuclear plant is built the capacity vastly exceeds renewables my several orders of magnitude. A coordinated effort to build multiple power plants could probably get a large country to net zero in decades.
- igor47 3y ago> A coordinated effort This is begging the question. A coordinated effort will solve all our problems in many ways, and is exactly the hard thing about problems like climate change.
- Turskarama 3y agoPeople aren't interested in building nuclear because it's slower and more expensive than building renewables + storage.
- proc0 3y agoIs this per unit of power produced, and is it taking into consideration the maintenance costs? I don't know the answers but it seems we could be net zero if we had invested in nuclear for more than four decades since climate change was widely accepted. Renewables are great but until battery tech becomes good enough it is not as viable as current nuclear tech.
- weard_beard 3y agoA nuclear world is a world without the possibility of war. I’m not ready to live in a globally “average” culture. That’s a dictatorship where I have few rights, minorities are jailed or mass murdered, and there is very little economic mobility. A global nuclear society requires a global cultural utopia.
- proc0 3y agoI'm not sure that follows. Some countries would reach that goal first and then the others could get the technology eventually, or even if they don't if most of the large countries switch to nuclear it seems it would take care of the main problem.