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[–] 14 points 2 months ago
[–] 13 points 2 months ago

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, Wind and Solar Power?!?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah but don't forget some accidents happened some times... And like some people died.

    Oh, that? That's just the giant death pit of coal miners, oil riggers, refinery workers and the good old poisoned to death general public. Ignore that.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    We should be pouring money into fusion instead of datacenters

    If we had nuclear fusion, we could produce so much power with so little fuel that it would be economical to literally scrub the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and chemically refine it back into gasoline. You could keep your vroom vrooms and we wouldn’t be facing a dying planet.

    But no, everyone thinks it’ll be like The Jetsons when is going to be like every Black Mirror episode combined.

    Thanks for the future, assholes

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Nuclear energy is categorically uneconomical. Fossil fuel oligarchy and establishment support it because it is uneconomical and a complete non threat to energy oligarchy. It's military use justifies the fraud and bribery of pretending it is economical.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Nuclear is actually promoted by old guard mining and energy oligarchs because it provides a centralised means of control.

    The peoples needs can be met with 100% renewables and battery storage. The oligarchies needs can never be met, because they are a malignant cancerous parasite.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This is conspiracy level misinformation. You can't do 100% wind+solar with batteries, many countries have tried and failed. Germany and Denmark are great examples of highly industrialized nations with high population density that has tried to do what you're suggesting, and they've proven that it's a fantasy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Germany has tried no such thing lol. Actually there are appliances for gigantic amounts of battery storage because it’s a simple buy low sell high business case that everybody wants to get into.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    oh boy, not that again

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Ask the French and Romanians how well Nuclear Fission Power Plants are going for them rn lol

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    There is no nuclear Power plant in the whole world, that’s entirely run by a private corporation. They are all heavily subsidized by the states. And all of those states either have nuclear warheads or want to build some. Nuclear is just too expensive.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, also you have to keep mining and enriching uranium or thorium to keep them running. At least with renewables most of the materials are recyclable so you only have to mine once. Nuclear would have made a great stop gap between fossil fuels and renewables though.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Yeah unfortunately nuclear doesn't make any sense anymore today. It's way too expensive and its not nearly as renewable as you'd think. 20-50 years ago? It should have been something huge.

    At this point solar is so cheap and easy almost everything else looks silly in comparison.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Completely false. Many countries have nuclear power with no nuclear weapons. Most of Europe, much of Asia. Africa is about to build many nuclear power plants too.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago

    I concede the nuclear warheads part. Still true fir a lot of countries tho.

    The fun thing about smr is that investors are fleeing and the start ups are going bancrupt. Additionally when the nuclear power plants were initially developed they had to upscale the to high size because the big overhead of maintenance, safety measures and poor yield from heat power coupling only gives a small net power output. So to make it work they had to make it big. Now they try to make it small again. Apart from some niche use they won’t make a big difference.

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