• Relo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why go nuclear when renewable is so much cheaper, safer, future proof and less centralised?

    Don’t get me wrong. Nuclear is better than coal and gas but it will not safe our way of life.

    Just like the electric car is here to preserve the car industry not the planet, nuclear energy is still here to preserve the big energy players, not our environment.

    • PSoul•Memes@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      For what I’ve read, it’s beats nuclear tech exists and is ready to be built at scale now. Renewables are intermittent in nature and need energy storage to work at scale. We don’t have the tech for a grid wide energy storage.

    • JoYo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I can’t imagine a future without solar, wind, and nuclear power.

      not unless we find out we are wrong about thermodynamics.

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        1 year ago

        You don’t need to imagine a future without nuclear in the mix - there are plenty of places doing fine with renewables and without coal or nuclear right now.

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        1 year ago

        Wind and Solar are “renewable” to a certain scale. If you dump gigantic wind farm in the middle of a jet stream, for example, you can impact downstream climate cycles.

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          1 year ago

          that’s why we could be aware of all the externalities.

          solar could be deployed on the ocean but that will certainly lower sea temperatures.

          let’s terraform intentionally rather than just accidentally.