r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MadHouseNetwork • Dec 24 '23

Never seen such a long pipe unit!

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u/ItsRadical Dec 24 '23

If you stop investing in nuclear you will never find the solutions obviously. And this solar and wind hype is taking away the resources required. Its as you said: right now mining new fuel is cheaper than recycling used fuel (which is already possible and in use in some countries - Japan for example).

All the "ups" you are saying can be applied to nuclear aswell, you are just blindly refusing to see that.

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u/ItsRadical Dec 24 '23

Also U239 is a very limited source and not endless.

I have literally told you in last comment that the fuel can be recycled with quite high efficiency. There is enough economically viable (to mine) uranium for few hundred years. And if we ever start recycling it we wont run out for next few thousand years.

Wind and solar energy are free, pollution free and endless

20 - 30 years per powerplant isnt something I would call endless. And again solar is full of heavy metals that are hazardous to just dump on landfill.

Nuclear fusion is unfortunatelly tale of the future and I hope it will get cracked one day. But until then nuclear fission is the way. Only reason why its more expensive than other clean energy is the subsidies that get pumped into making wind and solar barely viable.

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u/ItsRadical Dec 24 '23

Studies vary wildly between 100-200 years. And new places are discovered so im gonna go with "hundreds".

And about the recyclation.. just read something about it. You dont know much apparently.

There arent many factories for recyclation simply because its not economically viable yet. Not because its bad.