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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

The year is 2289.

We know how Dyson spheres work

That star is just literally free energy

But we blew up a solar system and wiped out a developing race one time and we stopped using it.

Imagine if hunters had stopped using fire?!?

Fukushima showed us the truth, Nuclear Safety is incompatible with capitalism. I don't care to find out what other time bombs we build into future plants.

[–] Antiproton 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you listen to the people on Lemmy, everything is incompatible with capitalism. So do we cower in the corner and hope the problems away?

The amount of death and destruction attributable to all nuclear accidents since we figured out fission is barely statistically significant when compared to fossil fuel consumption.

Regulatory agencies can and do keep accidents from happening. Not always, because people are both stupid and corrupt. But mostly.

Capitalism isn't going away any time soon. Maybe in a post fusion world, we'll cross the threshold of post-scarcity too. Until that happens, we do the best we can with the tools at our disposal.

You could make the same argument about literally anything. Capitalism caused the 737Max disasters. You want to give up planes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I mean, I'm good with giving up Boeing...

But honestly, the profit motive doesn't fit everywhere. It can certainly fit in places like retail, with good safety nets. (Like basic government food available at cost or less for people who need it)

In infrastructure where cost cutting costs more maintenance money, at best? It really doesn't belong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A nuclear accident with 1 attributed death and studies showing no discernable increase in cancer rates for residents in the surrounding regions that happened alongside a tidal wave with thousands of deaths is clearly evidence nuclear is bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

There's been a few more disasters. Fukushima is notable because if they had built for flooding they would have been fine. But that cost money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's the main Issue! It can't be calculated. It's an enormous debt for the future