Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Pretty clearly shows why there’s no future for nuclear power.
Even for filling gaps in renewables, peaker plants are getting cheaper and don’t take 15 years to build.
This is always a weird take to me because it always ignores the fact that nuclear has been screwed continuously for decades. If any other tecbology, renewable energy or not, had the same public and private blockers did it would also have no future.
My dude have you even followed any public discourse regarding renewable energy? There are literally very vocal people trying to push that wind turbines are putting cancer into children and that birds will go extinct because of them. There was discourse for many years that solar power was a waste of money and energy and it still gets pushed aside as being a household solution with no larger merit. Get out your selfmiserable bubble that only poor nuclear energy has heavy opposition and find a solution what to do with nuclear waste lmao.
Right cause a few crackpots on Twitter are comparable to multi generational governmental and NGO propaganda campaigns.
My brother in Christ that fact you think there aren't solutions to nuclear waste when there very clearly are simply proves my point.
Your crackpots on Twitter are literally fossil fuel and nuclear lobbied conservative politicians on all levels around the globe. But my poor nuclear is getting a bad rep :(
Ima be honest with you. I dont care thst much what you make of a punchline followed by a "lmao". The way you read discourse and think this is some sort of conspiracy about all innocent nuclear getting the stick. Go read your rightwing thinktank's paper and save the World or something idk.
Oh there we go. Clearly I'm right wing cause I disagree with you. Good lord you Americans are insufferable.
:D
You know its always the same with you Scotts :D
Nuclear waste already has a solution.
Most power plants, after exhausting the SOLID material for some time, deposit it in big cylindrical cement coffins ON SITE, so It can decay until harmlessness.
Nuclear waste is, if not 100%, all accounted for and taken care of.
Kyle Hill has a nice video about It if you want to learn more.**
Those are vocal minorities, not majority. Solar and wind didn't have several nuclear catastrophes to shift most public opinion into the gutter. Plants were poorly managed, cut corners, and ignored obvious warnings that could have prevented disaster. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/22-011-nuclear-engineering-science-systems-and-society-spring-2020/dfc5cc5e7a23d03bc1674e9423eeaece_MIT22_011S20_NuclearEnergy.pdf
Here's a link to an opinion piece on the matter, compiled with some sources. Nuclear is a viable option and focus on nuclear waste is shortsighted. Fossil fuels already produce waste in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and it's doing more damage to the planet than a comparablely tiny amount of nuclear waste.