This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.

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[–] 35 points 10 months ago (18 children)

They should be forced to make their own clean power plants. No clean coal, no natural gas. Only renewable since it is a guarantee that they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Nuclear energy is a con
    It's just a cover for making their bombs
    And it sends people to an early grave
    So we want the power of the wind and the waves

    Harness the wind
    Harness the waves
    We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
    Solar power - yet another alternative
    Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
    Then there's hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
    And we can cut our consumption with conservation programmes

    Harness the wind
    The sun the waves
    We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
    The civil atomic energy programmes is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
    We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly funded research into renewable sources of energy

    Harness the wind
    The sun the waves
    We don't need this filthy nuclear waste

    https://youtu.be/DjF6g51GHng

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Even the clean energy supplied datacenters will heavily pollute the water used to cool it. So, even if we do that, we should still be pushing to reduce the amount of datacenters being built right now...

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    What renewables can they use for 24/7 high levels of power requirements?

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.

    If they’re too dumb to figure it out, they’re too dumb to make AI profitable.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    They can afford the higher cost of electricity, but the rest of us can't, if they can add nuclear reactors to the power grid then it will drive the prices for normal people down so that it's nearly free.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Even though wind has higher capacity factors in most places, solar is more reliable.

    Its a myth that ai datacenters need constant power. Inference uses less than training. And more queries happen during day than night. Less cooling power needed at night.

    It is especially easy to build solar that will export to grid more than import throughout year, but it is also easy to be off grid, and store cooling for night, and for winter, and to not run max load in winter, or share grid imports in winter for regions with non electric heating. Share surpluses in 3 seasons.

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  • [+] -11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.

    As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials... which is paid by... the taxpayers.

    You didn't think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I trust the military doing it to spec a million times more than any company executives. It’ll probably be left to pollute the area they hide it for decades before taxpayers have to pay for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The military probably will do better than a private company but also remember that the military has had numerous toxic waste problems. Camp Lejeune’s cancers and all the firefighting PFAs contaminating water supplies are just two i can think of off the top of my head but i’m sure theres many more.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I think this song epitomises what rafoix replied with

    Safety rules - corners cut
    Just to keep the profits up
    Money saved - profits rise
    But consequence is someone dies

    Victim of a chemical spillage

    Safety regulations breached
    Critical concentrations reached
    Money is saved but a live is lost
    Loved ones left to count the cost

    Tanker crashing the village
    Death could from the spillage
    No escape from the fumes
    Peoples' homes become their tombs

    In the face of corporate greed
    Ecodefence is what we need
    Read and act upon this text
    Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage

    https://youtu.be/Q3sHdN4f_TI

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