Ideally we figure out some sweet Nuclear Fusion.
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CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 6 days agoChernobyl, Fukushima, 3 Mile Island. Plus uranium is another non-renewable resource.
I’m still pro nuke as getting off fossil fuels is of the utmost urgency, but we will have to learn to live off wind and solar.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 6 days ago
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Ah yes, the Fusion Reactors that are coming soon ™ (promised decades ago).
We need energy now, not at some unknown point in the future. Of course, resaeching this technology may make sense. But it does not help today and also not the next 20 years.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Yeah, putting your hopes / goals on a fusion powered future is foolish at this point.
But I def support (lots of) research into it.
hayvan@piefed.world 6 days ago
Cold fusion has been 10 years away since early 1960s.
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
It will come right after the year of Desktop Linux (I wish)
Gladaed@feddit.org 6 days ago
Having become a carbon neutral economy a couple years ago since we obviously adhere to the Paris agreement this does not seem like a good solution as we already (would have to have) deployed solutions based on current technology.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Agree that we can get to carbon neutral / carbon negative with current tech.
I do think making plans based on having it are foolish at best.
But I do think we need to keep working on research of it. If we ever hope to achieve a world with “electricity too cheap to meter”, nuclear fusion is the key to it. (That and dyson spheres, but that’s kinda not in scope of discussion).
Gladaed@feddit.org 6 days ago
Electric power too cheap to meter exists and it’s called solar power.
Renewables are dirt cheap. Hoping for even more abundance is forgetting that it’s already ridiculous.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
I’d love to see a full production chain breakdown of disasters and their costs to clean up, for both fossil fuel and nuclear.
Most people’s issue is “ooh scary radiation!” without realizing you get more exposure to ionizing radiation by living near a coal fired power plant than a nuclear one. Fuck, you can take a swim in the reactor pool and if you’re under the surface away from the nuclear material, the water above you blocks the background radiation you’d be exposed to walking around on the surface.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
So what has released more waste into the world, all the nukes including those, or the equivalent mega-wattage of all other human power generation? Dunno if you noticed but our future climate is FUCKED to the tune of hundreds of trillions of dollars, while meanwhile very few of us are suffering from the effects of nuclear power genenration.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 days ago
The question was “why is public sentiment so against nuclear?” and they answered, with a note that they personally support it over fossil fuels.