Do we really need it?
Nuclear power
Juan Peterson
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Lincoln Taylor
>Imagine Brazilian monkeys trying to run one...
No, just no!
Lincoln Gray
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Kevin Clark
Since 1971, faggot ;)
Nicholas Smith
The time it would take to build up nuclear reactors to replace fossil fuels alone makes it a non-solution with regard to climate change. In fact, building new reactors, or operating most existing ones, makes climate change worse compared with spending the same money on more-climate-effective ways to deliver the same energy services. Lower cost saves more carbon per dollar. Faster deployment saves more carbon per year. Nuclear power costs about 5 times more than onshore wind power per kWh. Nuclear takes 5 to 17 years longer between planning and operation and produces on average 23 times the emissions per unit electricity generated.
Nuclear power is not an alternative to renewables, despite what the pro-nuclear STEM-bro circlejerk likes to parrot. Too long to build, too long to come online and lack of infrastructure. It would take decades to build power plants and get them online. It takes several decades before a nuclear power plant starts off setting the cost of its construction. You're essentially making a bet that 30 years from now your overpriced energy will actually look attractive. Despite the fact that every other energy generation method has been innovating and upgrading for 30 years while you haven't.
Check up the EPR project in France. 15+y in the making, still not operating. The budget has exploded. 3 times the original budget. The price per kWh will be between 2-3 times more of new solar PV. This is not going to save us from climate change.
And then of course there is also the waste that will exist for hundreds of thousands of years. Imagine for a moment that the Roman Aqueducts from 2000 years ago were made with a waste material that we still had to manage today. If we don't, it could get into our ground water, kill people, etc. How would we feel about the Romans and their water supply? Now realize that the same thing is going to happen with nuclear waste except its 100 times as long a period of time.
Jace Morales
Nuclear power sounds great until you think about the future of the countries with it.
>A bunch of low IQ retards from cultures where cutting corners is the norm trying to maintain nuclear facilities
Jack Price
Based
Josiah Stewart
Nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind.
Petrol will eventually run out
Samuel Brown
Nope. The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Alexander Reed
We really really need it.
>looks at electricity bill
We really really really need it.
>looks at teh amount of carbon green taxes added on to my bills
We really really really really need it.
Jose Johnson
>>A bunch of low IQ retards from cultures where cutting corners is the norm trying to maintain nuclear facilities
Thats just the French.
I think we still have a high enough IQ in England to build 1 nuclear power station for each major city.
Parker James
Those types of countries need 4th gen reactors. Zero maintenance models. Just buy it, bury it in a hole with wires coming out, and enjoy 40 years of free electricity. When its done you can hire a company run by whites to come replace the fuel or dig it up and replace it.
Honestly, I want one for my back yard.
Owen Scott
>Built and run by the US
Jack Williams
I don't thinkc anything else will be able to feed all the söycars anytime soon
Justin Howard
>company owned by whites
>in 2060
Nathan Myers
That's cause its fake. Nuclear Power plants don't work. They are just electric load dumps.
Brayden Morgan
>a Germán being against nuclear power
Wow who would of guessed. Also, your answer reeks of unimaginative, pessimistic, brain decay. Many of the problems you listed like time to build are things that can be solved through innovation. Additionally to say that the technology hasn’t advanced is fucking false. Your country used to be enviable for what it could achieve, now you are nothing but a limp wristed nation beholden to its enemies. Enjoy keeping warm with Russian gas faggot.
Wyatt Edwards
yes overall desalination
Dylan Cook
If man ever wants to leave this doomed rock, yes.
Henry Brown
Shut up shilll.
Dylan Stewart
No. Even if you are worried about CO2 if you pump it through a pit of basalt 90% is mineralised within 2 years.
eos.org
Climate change is a meme - but even for those worried about it, the carbon capture technology is just pump it through basalt
Jeremiah Green
Julian Diaz
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Germans had some really clever nuclear power station designs back in the day as well.
>MFW they are using hilarious windmills to power their industrial economy.