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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

No it's about nuclear waste and where to store it, it's about how expensive it is to build a nuclear power plant (bc of regulations so they don't goo boom) and it's about how much you have to subsidize it to make the electricity it produces affordable at all. Economically it's just not worth it. Renewables are just WAY cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Funny how people think waste is why we don't use nuclear power.

You noticed how we're all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven't banned burning fossil fuels.

It's a money problem and a PR problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Exactly, bad PR.

Waste isn't actually much of a problem - it's just been portrayed as one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

No it's about nuclear waste and where to store it,

Is this video inaccurate? This isn't meant as a gotcha comment. https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Fire's waste is just all particulates in the air which we all share.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but we got lungs to filter that all out … or smth idk how this works

[–] bouh -2 points 5 hours ago

Renewable are so cheap, especially when we don't need as much energy! Fortunately we won't need as much energy in winter now. :-)