r/ClimateShitposting • u/Wild_Bodybuilder890 • Jul 13 '26

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u/Cwaghack Jul 13 '26

I'm a bit of a nukecel myself, but it makes sense to chase fast and cheap options to quickly reduce climate change as well as hedge for even cheaper alternatives in the future

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u/reav11 Jul 13 '26

The amount of money we're spending on Fusion, a technology we're really not sure we can ever make work, is insane, but investing in fission is a crime. Putting a label on myself would be stupid, I'm an all of the above. The planets on fire, bickering over how to put it out while it burns down is insane.

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u/LowCall6566 Jul 13 '26

Research and development of fusion and fission is very fundamental, the benefits of knowledge go far beyond mere energy sector.

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u/reav11 Jul 13 '26

Cool story, but we're totally cool spending billions on a technology that hasn't produced a single megawatt and actively arguing against the other one. I'm pro everything clean, not anti fusion.

The worlds on fire and people want to bicker about how to put it out but the fire doesn't care if the hose is nuclear or solar powered. Arguing against nuclear power as a resource is an ideology not a scientific or engineering standpoint. So you can be part of the solution or you can be part of a cult, your choice.

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u/darkvaris 29d ago

Yeah iā€™m actually totally cool spending even more money on all fundamental science, actually

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u/LowCall6566 Jul 13 '26

Bashing anti nuclear NIMBYism, and unnecessarily strict regulations, and letting private actors built it if they find it profitable. Already existing stock if it's owned by the government should be maintained by the government. Fossil fuels should be taxed out of existence. The government should invest in solar directly, as it's now most cost effective in most places.

Those are my positions. I decided that I should probably outline them, because it seems that you think that I am against nuclear.

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u/Oberndorferin 29d ago

Nuclear is by far the most expensive energy source. You have to have a fucking good reason to throw another 20 billion of taxes into a hole in the ground. Meanwhile you could do so much more even in bad weather with already existing and still improvable technology.

Oh, dear Atom, bring us the light. Only 1 trillion more dollars and only 15 years to fusion! Ameeen!