• Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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    11 months 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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        11 months ago

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

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              11 months 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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                11 months 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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                  11 months 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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              11 months 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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                11 months ago

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

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                  11 months 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