At least some pyros from the Romanian navy have fun ... 🎆🔥
so, like, black sabbath? or something harder that the kids today listen to?
Am I the only moron who thought they meant music?
Wow, all that super stable, super reliable base load energy is just mindblowing!! Let's build more nuclear power plants!
Let’s build more nuclear power plants!
If we had done that early on we wouldn't have global warming and there wouldn't be a cool water shortage.
but that's not true. Electricity only accounts for about 18% of emissons, its non renewable, you'd have a waste pile the size of a mountain, would have run out of fuel by now and you'd need to start decommissioning most of them and rebuilding them
There's a persist myth that some technology can just magic a fix here, nothing short of vastly reduced energy consumption, and lifestyle changes can work, 10000 aging nuclear reactors that need replacing ain't going to cut it.
an example ?
we'd get a 30% reduction in emissions if the richest 10% loved like the average European, not enough but an excellent start
Electricity only accounts for about 18% of emissons
You have to switch all processes to electricity or hydrogen like steel making or fertilizer.
Best results come from not abusing the third world and letting them have a future that allows them to only have two children.
You have to switch all processes to electricity or hydrogen like steel making or fertilizer.
Doesn't turn Uranium into a regrowing resource.
Others have mentioned breeder reactors. There is also Thorium. But it is only necessary to use the energy until renewables take over. The last 70 years and the next 30 would have been enough to prevent global warming.
The last 70 years and the next 30 would have been enough to prevent global warming.
Suggesting that this would only be possible by going nuclear has absolutely zero basis in reality. Spinning magnets to generate electricity is a known way generate electricity since way before the first nuclear reactor was ever built. Hydropower and wind turbines were invented during the industrial revolution.
What would you have done in the 1960ies and 1970ies to end the usage of fossil fuels?
It's more relevant what we should/can do now than what we should've done years ago, no?
I mean, obviously learn from history and not make the same mistakes, but it's also not necessarily the case that whatever would've been the solution back then, still is today.
If the same people are still in power and don't show acceptance of their mistakes or a willingness to correct them then it is relevant. There are solutions but it should be clear that they won't implement them.
"Look at all that renewable green solar generation! Sure doesn't work so well when it's buried under a mudslide lol"
That's what you sound like
The thing is that this is a really desperate measure. The danube is one of Europes biggest rivers. That nuclear power plant was build with water inlets. That plant has been there for ages as every nuclear plant in Europe is old as fuck. That rock has been there also a long time. Having to blast it to help a little bit in order to save the reactor producing so much energy that the other plants in the country can't take over, is desperate as fuck
Even if solar panels get buried under a mudslide, you can just build new solar panels very quickly. If that would happen to a nuclear plant, you would need to wait 10+years for a new one.
When you hit rock bottom, that's at least the point, where yo-...hm, wait a second...
Nuclear is not a solution, evidence 836382.
It's also now more expensive than renewables. And it has always been less safe. There is literally no reason to build nuclear anymore. Renewables is the way to go. Cheaper, safer, makes Europe energy-independent, and also much better for the environment.
Well, most of the time you would be right indeed. Uranium fuel rods are solid. But in a molten-salt reactor the fissile material is actually dissolved in molten salt, so it is a solution!
The more you know!
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