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• atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s my point. The social benefit of renewables are environmentally and temporally differentiating. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t invest in them! We definitely should, and likely more than we do. But all I’m saying if you were to calculate the environmental and societal long run costs, I believe there must be places and situations where fission/fusion is preferred sometimes.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I believe there must be places and situations where fission/fusion is preferred sometimes.

    Heavy industry. Metal casting, metal purification from ore, rockwool insulation, cement, glass works, all use huge energy.

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