Why do smart people prefer nuclear energy over muh renewables?
Why do smart people prefer nuclear energy over muh renewables?
Leo Gray
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Dylan Scott
>smart people prefer nuclear over renewables
Congratulations, you just answered your own question.
David Collins
no carbon emission
Noah Reed
Your average consumer moron never accounts for cost of manufacturing, maintenance and grid input. They have a deficient understanding of logistics.
This process wastes resources, energy and pollutes as well, and should fully be part of the equation.
Nuclear is simply one of the most efficient methods when it comes to that.
Best bang for your buck = greener and more profitable.
Blake Flores
Might just be people who think they are smart but don't actually understand the modern state nuclear industry
Georgia nuclear plant's cost now forecast to top $30 billion | AP News - apnews.com
2200 MW, 30 billion dollars, something like 40% of nuclear fuel comes from Russia
Tyler Nguyen
Solar and Wind is cheaper than nuclear.
Juan Baker
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Zachary Reed
>Why do smart people prefer nuclear energy over muh renewables?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Nathaniel Nelson
based retard
Cooper Brown
It doesn't take much to understand that "green" energy is a massive fucking meme right now and nuclear is the cleanest option we have until other forms of power generation are developed enough to actually mean shit.
The sad part is you still have people unironically believing that condensation towers are smoke stacks or that power plants are constantly in danger of blowing up just because soviets let theirs burn down and wouldn't even tell anyone.
Leo Wright
>nuclear
>implying
How is nuclear non-renewable?
Isaiah Bell
Because dumb people are easily manipulated.
Lincoln Miller
Kazakhstan but yes its pretty much russia now.
Liam Lee
How is nuclear non-renewable or do you mean replacing the Uranium/Thorium core once every 750 million years?
Grayson Reyes
It costs 30 billion because every corrupt politician has hired all their friends to build it and probably started a few new companies themselves to divert as much money as possible into their own pockets.
BER was planned for 15 years, needed 14 years for construction, cost 8 billion € and it's a steaming pile of shit.
Andrew Powell
>believing that condensation towers are smoke stacks
If only they knew…
Ian Green
>Mine yellow cake
>Enrich
>Conventional reactor
>Uranium eventually degrades into Thorium/Uranium mixture.
>Thorium salt reactor
That's easily a century of renewable energy.
Hudson Johnson
yes they're cheaper and safer but they require tons of land that are in specific places that can receive tons of sunlight / is windy and away from living spaces. But honestly that's also the case with nuclear
Cameron Bennett
as a fisherman & hunter.. i fucking hate hydropower and wind turbines
Landon Jenkins
They need places to dumb the waste which I assume wouldn't take that much space. Maybe just a facility hole in the ground.
The hot water they need to pump out can really fuck up and ecosystem tho.
So maybe counter that out with a secondary water treatment plant that cools the water to the right temperature.
Finally nogs working there will cause a meltdown so please for the love of God, no diversity hires.
Nathaniel Ward
>that pic
Heartiest chuckle i've had all day.
Xavier Moore
>something like 40% of nuclear fuel comes from Russia
You can thank Hillary for that deal. We have all the materials here, cheap, but the Uranium One deal is why we're so crippled.
The majority of the cost and time is red tape, corruption, and interference. Nothing to do with the materials, the labor, or the fuel
Lincoln Flores
The condesnation towers are just steam but the coal does get burnt and there are smoke towers too, no?
Chase Ward
Calling them Renewables is a misnomer because they're anything but renewable. The cost to manufacture and upkeep them is massive and the amount of materials is enormous if they were ever used as a primary source of energy. Modern nuclear reactors are extremely powerful, efficient and safe.
Evan Williams
Because nuclear is power.
Ayden Taylor
yes but we aren't talking about coal here
I don't think anyone says coal is a good solution to coal/gas/oil being too dirty