sunkenvicar

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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Wow. This thread is full of anti-nuclear fudd. An amazingly powerful two sentence Bloomberg blurb! Generation 3 nuclear is on the way, with bipartisan support. Dozens of startups are working on generation 4 and on nuclear fusion. Is ycombin
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No one reads the fine print.
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I’ve always felt like a criminal when I leave Costco. I am forced under threat of membership cancellation to show my receipt, cart contents, and bag contents to an employee.
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Security expert calls out Costco and other retailers on bag searches(cbc.ca)
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Election campaign begins any day now. This is part of a desperate plan to hold on to power by the Trudeau Liberals. The Conservatives are poised to win easily so he’s trying to grab votes from the left wing NDP and Green parties.
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For decades I have meticulously washed and sorted my blue bin recyclables. Now they are banning plastics because people on the other side of the world treat their rivers as garbage dumps. I don’t litter. Don’t punish me. I see this as a cyn
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40+ years of generating clean CO2-free energy. Designed with slide rules and drafting tables. An unbelievable accomplishment!
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I am acknowledging that all the real problems are solved. The only roadblocks left are literally in our heads. Let’s talk it out :)
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Generation 3 nuclear is producing power in France, right now. It is able to solve climate change and carbon emissions globally. The problems you list are psychological, not technical. Gen 3 nuclear buys us time to get to Gen 4 nuclear which
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Carbon emissions and climate change were solved decades ago in France with nuclear power. We can adopt the French model and export it worldwide.
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Where did I deny either? Generation 3 plants have a perfect track record. And nuclear is worthwhile to pursue, no matter one’s stance on climate change.
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Strange that America isn’t pure hydro. Also strange that so many startups ignore hydro and jump to nuclear.
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Nuclear power is reliable, safe, clean, and carbon-free. It’s the best technology choice for combatting climate change. People who dismiss nuclear energy aren’t serious players.
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So how does it work in France?
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Hydroelectricity is cheaper than nuclear, but relatively niche. It needs a lot of flowing water and a large change in elevation. In many places it is dead in the water. Compare this to nuclear, which only needs a large body of cooling water
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There’s a surprising amount of FUDD in here regarding nuclear power. Nuclear power is the only serious option we have for clean, reliable, carbon-free power. A no-brainer if you believe in climate change. Generation 3 reactors have been in
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Very misleading headline and article. Wind and solar are hardly renewable. Most of the time they produce zero energy and are backed by gas turbines.
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Canadian taxpayers give a billion dollars to the CBC every year. In return we get American-centric stories on the front page that seem to reflect our governing party’s ideology.
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Scott Adams just interviewed Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. Michael explains nuclear power and how it compares to the competition. https://blog.dilbert.com/2019/04/30/episode-512-scott-adams-...
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British Columbia is a million square kilometres for 5 million people. 3 million of whom live in urban areas along the 49th parallel. This is to say that BC is a vast, rugged, rural land. Running out of gas is easy to do and quite deadly. Th