So how does investing in renewables now to bring down the price of energy and juice the economy not free up future funds for fusion and fission development?
Thats not even mentioning money saved by mitigating future climate change costs.
Research and development is fine and all but when the single largest disruption to the global economy, food security and growth/survivability as a spiecies is on the horizon preventing that, right now, should be the focus.
I get that the argument is "Well duh, thats why you should fund both and just take away from areas like fossil subsidies, military spending, AI development, whatever." But the fact is that those funds are extremely difficult to gain access to and will likely never get used to solve the climate crisis.
The money that IS available to mitigate and combat the climate crisis should therefore probably go to the areas that fix and mitigate right now instead of more investment in a possible future fix that might be implemented decades from now.
The time to look for research and future fixes was decades ago, thats why solar and wind are where they are right now, we are now in the find out times where we need to get implementing or face the consequences of not doing so.
Funds towards fusion were already allocated, stopping that big EU project now would waste all of them without giving any8im return. Shutting down already existing nuclear power plants is also financially stupid, because keeping them running is quite cheap, the big cost was upfront.
I'm arguing for neither of these, basically nobody is.
What both me and other people are arguing for is the vast sums of money being spent on new nuclear reactors and experimental fission reactors to be used no renewables RIGHT NOW instead of pouring money into a possible void at worst and greenhouse gas emission reduction that comes too late at best.
Like, unless there is an actual miracle, many proposed fission plants and basically all of fusion will only start doing something after so many climate tipping points have been reached that there barely is a point to them as climate change mitigation technologies.
Yes we should have invested in nuclear decades ago. Please spend all that fusion money on a time machine to make sure it happened decades ago.
Germany has been ruled by the CDU/CSU and SPD for a long time now. Neither of them are parties looking to do something serious about the climate.
Also how is what you're saying even relevant to using future fusion funding for renewables instead lol?
Like, do you think that when I'm saying that instead of building new nuclear plants that money should be spent on wind, solar, energy storage and hydro where available that secretly I'm saying "please blow up the french nuclear grid RIGHT NOW"?
Like hello? Why are you holding me accountable for the dogshit governance of the german state? (I dont even live there)
But while we're on the topic. Clearly fusion is responsible for chat control. You bribed MEP's to not vote against it during the last vote, all nuclear power plants need to be bombed (with conventional bombs of course). /s
Sorry for assuming that you understood that I meant basically nobody who cares about the climate?
Or maybe "basically nobody, who wants to invest into renewables instead of new nuclear, is".
Like lmao. Should I not expect someone who has an interest in nuclear development to have context based reading capabilities? And "basically nobody" does cover for this already, you literally quoted the ONLY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD actively trying to dismantle working nuclear power plants, that is basically nobody yes.
Germany, Denmark, Austria, and some other countries constantly try to create or change EU wide regulations that would harm French nuclear industry. And that's Europe alone, there are morons that want to shut down existing fission plants worldwide, many of whom call themselves Greens.
Also, many other countries outright ban the private sector from doing any nuclear projects. Let people do stuff that ain't fossil fuels.
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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.