Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...
He lives in Illinois, the state with over 50% of it’s electricity provided by Nuclear Energy. I really wish people who are all about renewable energy would acknowledge the extremely important role nuclear power should hold even in the future. He mentions nuclear as an aside, but there really should be a wider push amongst environmentalists for emissions free nuclear reactors.
Nuclear is a lot of things, but one thing it is not is profitable. No country, not Russia, China, Japan, France etc has ever made it profitable. It is always subsidized.
Profitability means nothing for a common good. Nuclear has many unique characteristics that make it a better choice, especially in colder environments. People need energy.
So? If you charged per ton of CO2 that was produced with fossil fuels and also didn’t subsidize their extraction they wouldn’t be profitable either? Neither would Air Travel. So what’s your point?
To be fair the video is specifically about renewables. I have a feeling if he made one about nuclear he would be for it too.
I find it weird how many people protest clean nuclear, almost like they don’t understand it.
My eyes are really widened for the use of renewables though now after watching the video, so at least us who were mostly nuclear heads now see how good renewables have become at harvesting energy.
the big problem with nuclear is just that there’s kinda no real reason for it anymore, renewables are just cheaper and better now.
I guess maybe if you REALLY dedicate yourself to defending it, nuclear plants can make sense from a national security perspective? And it’s something we could spin up if the sun fucking dissapears one day.
But a side from those two things i really can’t see any reason to build more nuclear (bringing back reactors that were decommissioned might make sense, i don’t know) when we could instead spend that effort on just plastering the landscape with wind turbines and solar panels and shove batteries in every apartment building…
Nuclear is just a money pit at this point in time. Its not wort it anymore. The same energy can be achieved by solar + battery farm for way less money. Even in places like britain where it rains al ot its still cheaper and wind is even more so.
Maybe in Finland it has a place (high latitude, a low supply of hydro power). Also in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan (densely populated mountainous countries with a low supply of hydro power).
He lives in Illinois, the state with over 50% of it’s electricity provided by Nuclear Energy. I really wish people who are all about renewable energy would acknowledge the extremely important role nuclear power should hold even in the future. He mentions nuclear as an aside, but there really should be a wider push amongst environmentalists for emissions free nuclear reactors.
Don’t worry.
By the end of the video, he definitely goes nuclear.
Nuclear is a lot of things, but one thing it is not is profitable. No country, not Russia, China, Japan, France etc has ever made it profitable. It is always subsidized.
Profitability means nothing for a common good. Nuclear has many unique characteristics that make it a better choice, especially in colder environments. People need energy.
People also need to use energy more efficiently, not just increasing it’s usage mindlessly.
Water purification is not profitable either.
So? If you charged per ton of CO2 that was produced with fossil fuels and also didn’t subsidize their extraction they wouldn’t be profitable either? Neither would Air Travel. So what’s your point?
Point is we don’t have a way to safely store nuclear waste. Just research it a bit deeper.
Additionally there is just no reason to use nuclear, when we have enough renewables and our disposal.
To be fair the video is specifically about renewables. I have a feeling if he made one about nuclear he would be for it too.
I find it weird how many people protest clean nuclear, almost like they don’t understand it.
My eyes are really widened for the use of renewables though now after watching the video, so at least us who were mostly nuclear heads now see how good renewables have become at harvesting energy.
the big problem with nuclear is just that there’s kinda no real reason for it anymore, renewables are just cheaper and better now.
I guess maybe if you REALLY dedicate yourself to defending it, nuclear plants can make sense from a national security perspective? And it’s something we could spin up if the sun fucking dissapears one day.
But a side from those two things i really can’t see any reason to build more nuclear (bringing back reactors that were decommissioned might make sense, i don’t know) when we could instead spend that effort on just plastering the landscape with wind turbines and solar panels and shove batteries in every apartment building…
Nuclear is just a money pit at this point in time. Its not wort it anymore. The same energy can be achieved by solar + battery farm for way less money. Even in places like britain where it rains al ot its still cheaper and wind is even more so.
It’s 8pm and the wind died, now what.
Maybe in Finland it has a place (high latitude, a low supply of hydro power). Also in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan (densely populated mountainous countries with a low supply of hydro power).