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Because it’s a dangerous technology where profit over security can have severe consequences. Not to mention the new risks now that drone wars are a thing. All
by croes 6mo ago
Because it’s a dangerous technology where profit over security can have severe consequences.
Not to mention the new risks now that drone wars are a thing. All those Chemical plants are already valuable target, no need to additional nuclear ones.
- gruez 6mo ago>Because it’s a dangerous technology where profit over security can have severe consequences. Yeah it's far better to have power plants kill a steady stream of people, but in a banal way that's hard to attribute, like coal power plants causing lung cancer.
- Cthulhu_ 6mo agoWhich is why coal power plants are being shuttered everywhere in favor of gas and renewables (and I suppose nuclear, sometimes).
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoIt's not nuclear or coal. There is wind, solar, etc.
- JKCalhoun 6mo agoNo, but hydroelectric works pretty well. There's a reason they recycle aluminum, etc. (power-hungry industries—crypto-mining, ha ha) along the Columbia River, etc. So build your data centers there. No reason to choose the least evil.
- applied_heat 6mo agoHydro electric as a resource is probably mostly exploited - are there a lot of big hydro projects left to build? If there are they must be difficult or expensive or they would have already been built.
- throwaway173738 6mo agoIn the Cascades they’re deconstructing dams as the benefits were oversold while the maintenance costs and environmental impacts were underestimated.
- Sabinus 6mo agoThe Green movement in Australia was started over the successful blocking of a hydroelectric dam. Rivers are usually highly ecologically significant.
- croes 6mo agoBecause the only options are coal or nuclear? Wind and solar with storage is far better than nuclear.