• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      basically exactly the same situation as we’re in now

      You think if we take away 50 years of burning fossil fuels we’d be in “the same situation as we’re in now”?? Wtf are you smoking?

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          4 months ago

          As if it’s fucking green activists blocking nuclear and not the fossil fuel lobby

          It literally is, though I suspect the greens are the useful stooges of the fossil fuel propaganda.

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              4 months ago

              So I quoted this sentence:

              As if it’s fucking green activists blocking nuclear and not the fossil fuel lobby

              And then you started talking a bunch of blah blah about renewables, which I will note is NOT in that sentence.

              And you did not mention nuclear, which I will note is the entire SUBJECT of that sentence.

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      4 months ago

      No, because until we solve the storage issues with electricity. You need a reliable baseline power source in the grid. Solar has 0% cost effectiveness at night. Nuclear is 100 times more environmentally friendly than coal. Even with the long term waste storage issues.

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        4 months ago

        Hydroelectric plants, batteries, generation on site, wave power, geothermal, … There are lots of ways to reduce the need of non renewable energy.

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        We’ve basically solved the storage issues through about eighty different methods that have various applicability in different situations. They just need to be scaled up at this point.

        It’s actually better. No traditional power plant can match demand exactly, and large amounts of power are wasted as a result. A wind+solar+storage solution can match demand very close. This means we don’t need to replace every GWh of coal and gas with a GWh of renewable. The lack of wasted power takes off a pretty big chunk.