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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (6 children)

This thread: nuclear is far better than fossil fuels

Everyone else: nuclear is not as good as renewables

This thread: nuclear is far better than fossil fuels

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's me, I'm the nuclear lobby.

Nuclear is the achievable & practical interim solution to power an industrial society until renewables become practical / scale up to meet demand. We can build reactors in the short term, they uncouple the economy from bad faith actors like russia & opec, and their more efficient than renewables at scaling right now. Small modular reactors can even be dropped into existing coal plants and recycle their steam turbine hardware.

Frankly I don't care if renewables are better in the long term, because there won't be one if we don't kill coal plants entirely very soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We’ll have to disagree. Renewables can be scaled faster and cheaper and have the added benefit of securing the grid through decentralization.

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