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Somone scarily reminded me recently that Alaskan oil pipelines are anchored into "permafrost". Which you'd think if anyone would have realized wouldn't remain s
by jauntywundrkind 1y ago
Somone scarily reminded me recently that Alaskan oil pipelines are anchored into "permafrost". Which you'd think if anyone would have realized wouldn't remain so perma frosted would have been the oil companies. What else do you do, I guess?
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- votepaunchy 1y agoBuilt in the 70’s. We could have shut off the pipeline by now but instead shut down nuclear green energy.
- ok_dad 1y agoNuclear was never an option 1) cost is too high compared to other options 2) corpos can’t be trusted to run it safely I love nuclear tech but it’s not commercializable anymore. I’ll happily change my opinion once a nuclear company solves those issues, but it’ll never happen.
- anon7000 1y agoTrue. The most likely reason it won’t happen is just because solar power is on a massive hockey stick growth pattern. Global solar power capacity grew 2.5x from 2020 to 2024. From 2023-2024, we added the equivalent of the total global solar capacity in 2017. Why? Solar is extremely modular, relatively simple and standardized to set up & maintain, which eliminates huge amounts of risk as an infrastructure project. (The less bespoke a project, the less likely it’ll have a severe cost overrun.) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption