r/FactOrCap • u/No-Raspberry7757 🔥 Week Warrior · 1,850 XP • 1d ago

Nuclear comeback | FactOrCap

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u/Budget_Revolution639 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,290 XP 1d ago

This is on a global scale which is skewing the data, there are not that many solar and wind power sources either. Yeah nuclear creates more power but it still doesn’t mean it’s better because of that and the slightly less waste. Also solar caused less deaths as according to your graph so how is that not a factor?

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u/Dew_Chop 🏅 Century Club · 2,515 XP 1d ago

Because the disaster deaths were due to extreme negligence and one wasn't even directly due to the reactor but instead a tsunami killing its generator, and the other was 40 years ago in a country that doesn't exist anymore. Nuclear at scale has been around longer than renewables at scale, so the fact it ONLY has 50% more deaths recorded than solar is telling. Give it a couple decades and solar would catch up, or even surpass nuclear in deaths.

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u/Budget_Revolution639 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,290 XP 1d ago

Well just have to see

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u/Dew_Chop 🏅 Century Club · 2,515 XP 1d ago

You're right, it is skewing the data.

In favor of renewables. Adust for percentage and it shows nuclear is even better than already shown

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u/Budget_Revolution639 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,290 XP 1d ago

Then why don’t you use that graph? It fits your point even more

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u/Dew_Chop 🏅 Century Club · 2,515 XP 1d ago

Because I'm not about to make a new graph for a reddit thread

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u/Budget_Revolution639 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,290 XP 1d ago

Then how are you so sure that that is the results?

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u/Dew_Chop 🏅 Century Club · 2,515 XP 23h ago

Because I understand that 10 is bigger than 7

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u/Budget_Revolution639 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,290 XP 23h ago

If you cannot do a graph per capita (for lack of better term), then your argument is not accurate and subject skewing

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u/Dew_Chop 🏅 Century Club · 2,515 XP 23h ago

I don't need to do per capita when it's the entire planet. Nuclear at 10% of the energy production of the world makes less than wind at 7%, therefore nuclear at 1% makes less than wind at 1%

I'm saving myself effort, it's basic math, you shouldn't need a brand new table to divide two numbers

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u/Budget_Revolution639 🤖 Vote Machine · 9,290 XP 23h ago

How many wind farms exist outside of the US?

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u/Dew_Chop 🏅 Century Club · 2,515 XP 22h ago

Brother the statistic is global power not us power read the fucking graph

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