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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No it's about nuclear waste and where to store it, it's about how expensive it is to build a nuclear power plant (bc of regulations so they don't goo boom) and it's about how much you have to subsidize it to make the electricity it produces affordable at all. Economically it's just not worth it. Renewables are just WAY cheaper.

[–] el_abuelo 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Funny how people think waste is why we don't use nuclear power.

You noticed how we're all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven't banned burning fossil fuels.

It's a money problem and a PR problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

[–] el_abuelo 10 points 1 week ago

Exactly, bad PR.

Waste isn't actually much of a problem - it's just been portrayed as one.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You noticed how we’re all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven’t banned burning fossil fuels.

Who is "we"? How "fine" are you with breathing poison and carcinogens?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fire's waste is just all particulates in the air which we all share.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but we got lungs to filter that all out … or smth idk how this works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I am Jack's Lungs. I breath in soot and particles and eventually they cause cancer and I kill Jack.

That's how that shit works, homes. Not a thing to "idk whatev" about.

[–] JackbyDev 5 points 1 week ago

No it's about nuclear waste and where to store it,

Is this video inaccurate? This isn't meant as a gotcha comment. https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Renewable are so cheap, especially when we don't need as much energy! Fortunately we won't need as much energy in winter now. :-)