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Thank you so much for these posts! It makes me very optimistic about the future. For the longest time we all watched from the sidelines, hoping that the desire
by BubbleRings 1y ago
Thank you so much for these posts! It makes me very optimistic about the future.
For the longest time we all watched from the sidelines, hoping that the desire to turn off coal-fired power plants, and research often funded by tax dollars, would get the ball moving on solar. Now that the market has its magic invisible hand on that ball, it seems clear to me we have a path out of this mess.
Rant your stupid “drill baby drill” crap all you want magats, we are going to solar, wind, and fusion our way to a better world, and there is nothing you can do to stop us.
- aftbit 1y agoFission first! Let's build more nuclear power plants too. We know how to do it, and it's only so expensive because we got scared and stopped. Economies of scale for clean, safe, reliable baseload power.
- bruce511 1y agoTurns out, I'm already on fission. What I've done is tap into an existing fission reactor. It's some distance from my house, but there's a lot of excess energy there leaking out. I put up some collectors to capture it. Was really quite cheap to do, and I don't have to pay anyone to actually run the reactor.
- strawhatguy 1y agoThat’s silly, why make it political? If anything the political encroachment came from the green crowd first, cafe standards, EV mandates and the like. The best way forward has always been to explore all energy avenues, and that will include fossil fuels as well. At least you’ve included nuclear, but left out fission, strangely, which is the best hope of electric generation replacement we currently have. I’m tired of this team blue for electric (except Tesla now, lol) and team red for oil. They are choices with trade offs, and are friends, not enemies.
- bloomingeek 1y agoNo offence, but everything is political. Much of our lives are controlled by laws. These laws are all politically controlled. To say it's silly to make something political, usually suggests your supported political slant is difficult to justify. Trade offs are only possible when the party in charge is willing to work with EVERYONE, we don't have that now. Thus the criticism.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoPolitics is simply preference.
- strawhatguy 1y agoPolitics works through division by way of laws. Reduce the laws, reduce the division, and therefore politics.