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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (93 children)

Slow, expensive, riddeled with corruption, long ago surpassed by renewables. Why should we use it?

[–] mEEGal 51 points 1 week ago (33 children)

only antimatter could provide more energy density, it's insanely powerful.

produces amounts of waste orders of magnitude lower than any other means of energy production

reliable when done well

it shouldn't be replaced with renewables, but work with them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Yes, but energy density doesn't matter for most applications and the waste it produces is highly problematic.

[–] rtxn 3 points 1 week ago
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