• @[email protected]
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    231 month ago

    No it’s about nuclear waste and where to store it, it’s about how expensive it is to build a nuclear power plant (bc of regulations so they don’t goo boom) and it’s about how much you have to subsidize it to make the electricity it produces affordable at all. Economically it’s just not worth it. Renewables are just WAY cheaper.

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      601 month ago

      Funny how people think waste is why we don’t use nuclear power.

      You noticed how we’re all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven’t banned burning fossil fuels.

      It’s a money problem and a PR problem

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

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          101 month ago

          Exactly, bad PR.

          Waste isn’t actually much of a problem - it’s just been portrayed as one.

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        1 month ago

        You noticed how we’re all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven’t banned burning fossil fuels.

        Who is “we”? How “fine” are you with breathing poison and carcinogens?

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          11 month ago

          I am Jack’s Lungs. I breath in soot and particles and eventually they cause cancer and I kill Jack.

          That’s how that shit works, homes. Not a thing to “idk whatev” about.

    • @bouh
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      -21 month ago

      Renewable are so cheap, especially when we don’t need as much energy! Fortunately we won’t need as much energy in winter now. :-)