• lovesickoyster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, molten salt fission reactors.

    your sarcasm detector might be broken.

    The technology never worked on a commercial scale and it’s doubtful it ever will.

    I guess the chinese think differently - we will see.

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      1 year ago

      The Chinese will keep throwing money at it until it maybe works some day. They don’t care about cost.

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          1 year ago

          Sure. But they should use the money for things that have a chance to make a positive impact.

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                1 year ago

                IDK if you know this, but renewables aren’t on their own to cover all of our power needs everywhere.

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                  1 year ago

                  That nonsense has been debunked so many times. And no matter what, it’s simply physically impossible to build enough nukes quickly enough to have a meaningful impact.

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                    1 year ago

                    Are we talking about the same thing? I’m talking about nuclear energy not nukes. And if you are talking about nuclear power plants, in what world do you think it’s impossible to build enough to have a meaningful impact? Each power plant produces a crazy amount of energy. Far more than solar and wind can. Solar and wind by themselves will in no way overtake fossil fuel power plants fast enough. Nuclear energy would be a great replacement until then.

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                1 year ago

                It’s not a competition. You can and should do both. Putting all your eggs in renewables is just as shortsighted as not using them

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                  1 year ago

                  We should use the technologies that are proven to work, available today and way way cheaper than anything else.

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                    1 year ago

                    Yes, and we should continue to develop new technologies and energy systems, you know, the way science and technology progresses. You sound like you would be advocating for steam engines when cars came along