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jaykrownIt takes time to come to the realization that a lot of what we do is inefficient because thatâs just what people are used to doing. Some towns survive solely due to coal mining, and they see it as an existential threat if it were shut down. Nuclear power also takes very knowledgeable individuals, years of planning, and many resources to get started. Coal is cheap, dirty, and primitive.
Nuclear also isnât even a good energy source. Way too expensive and the waste is a problem for millenia. Renewables + hydrogen/battery/mechanical energy conservation is simply superior. Fusion would be cool too
Nuclear is a great energy source. My state (Illinois) generates over half of all its energy from nuclear. France is a great example of a country that maximizes the potential of nuclear energy. The waste is not a problem if itâs stored properly. The much bigger problem are carbon/methane emissions which are fucking our climate right now. Also, nuclear waste can be reprocessed to make it less volatile and radiotoxic, but that requires an advanced application of technology.
Batteries and solar absolutely yes, we need to be scaling up battery technology as fast as possible, particularly sodium-ion batteries for static energy storage from solar power. The biggest problems with wind/solar is the actual storage of the energy. No wind? No power. No sun? No power. Thatâs why you need batteries, and battery technology has only gotten good enough in the past couple years.
Scaling up hydrogen is very difficult, itâs extremely volatile, and can realistically only be used in large scale power plants because transporting hydrogen is extremely expensive. Fusion could be good, but itâs still being worked on, and who knows how long itâll really take for us to have a practical implementation.
France only pushed for nuclear, because they need an excuse for the costs of their nukes and nuclear submarines. The disadvantages of high cost and nuclear waste remain.
Franceâs 80 years of nuclear waste takes about the space of an Olympic swimming pool and half.
In a millena, itâll be 150 swimming pools, and thatâs assuming we havenât found a way to repair/reuse/recycle it in 1000 years. Or not decided to just yeet it on the nearest inhospitable planet via railcannon or something.
Nuclear waste is a non issue.
âIf itâs not an issue, how come we havenât built a thing to solve itâ
Yeah, that must be the reason why the United States pay half a billion dollars of tax payer money each year to the utility companys to compensate their failure in finding a suitable storage location. Not to mention the other 17.5bn the DOE pays every year for handling nuclear waste from power plants.
In general, one should not look at what happens in the USA and use it as a basis of reality for the rest of the world.
Weird ass country full of whackjobs who dedicate their entire lives into finding the worst possible solutions to problems nobody else but them have created for themselves.
MinnesotaGoddamHey! I also need to lose weight
I totally agree with you, especially in the second part where youâre talking about the US being a weird as country full of wackjobs.
But that doesnât mean that we in the other countries arenât a bunch of wackjobs either. We might not be as totally wack as you are right now, but thatâs just a matter of past or future. Just so you know: We already found the worst possible solution, so you donât have to find it for yourself, you can learn from us and choose another path.