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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I completely agree with everything you said except for ONE little thing:

You are grossly misrepresenting how far that can is kicked down, for the worse. It doesn't kick it down a couple thousand years, it kicks it down for if DOZENS of millennia assuming we stay at the current energy capacity. Even if we doubled or tripled it, it would still be dozens of millennia. First we could use the uranium, then when that is gone, we could use thorium and breed it with plutonium, which would last an incomprehensibly longer time than the uranium did. By that point, we could hopefully have figured out fusion and supplement that with renewable sources of energy.

The only issue that would stem from this would be having TOO much energy, which itself would create a new problem which is heat from electrical usage.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you just move the planet slightly further away from the sun! Problem solved!

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

No man you gotta move the moon closer, since it's cold

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The U235 is good for about 3 years, and pinning everything on something that has never had more than a half proof of concept is a bad choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As if breeder reactors don't exist