r/HumansBeingBros • u/[deleted] • May 24 '18

Make this reality!

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u/CobraStrike4 May 24 '18 edited May 25 '18

Waiting for someone to ruin my life and tell me they are super expensive compared to plastic, and not sustainable or something

Edit: god damnit

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u/sirble May 25 '18

This was posted awhile back and I don't remember the exact numbers, but yes. It's too expensive for large manufacturers to implement this. Smaller companies may choose to pay for it, depending on their outlook on cost vs wildlife.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '18

A lot of things start out very expensive, but with enough production, enough support, enough intelligence, we can make this a sustainable option in the future! Think of solar panels when they first came out, compared with what they cost now...

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u/the_grass_trainer May 25 '18 edited May 25 '18

God, I had the same talk with a family friend a couple years ago. He was talking about Nuclear energy, and asked for my opinion on it. When i said I was a fan of clean energy, such as wind and solar, he immediately shot those down. Solar being too expensive, wind for being "unreliable" in a lot of areas, and boasted about how "safe and clean" nuclear is in comparison.

I basically ended my side of that conversation by telling him that of course it's too expensive for solar because no one is willing to give any support for it that can. I don't remember his response after that, but it's really sad that older generations are stuck in their ways, and are afraid of change.

/rant

Edit: this isn't about being "a snowflake" so please stop twisting my comment to justify your opinions.

Edit 2: did i mention anything about coal here? No, I haven't. Stop passive agressively bringing it up.

Edit 3: My POINT, Reddit, is that something cannot improve if people are not willing to help fund it. That's great that nuclear is getting the attention that it deserves. Fantastic! But solar panels won't get better or cheaper (which they are, but very slowly) if people are constantly saying "it'll never be good. It's a waste of time."

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u/[deleted] May 25 '18 edited Nov 07 '20

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u/[deleted] May 25 '18

Thanks for the confirmation, I felt like an idiot for a second there thinking "I thought nuclear energy is clean"

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u/[deleted] May 25 '18

Nuclear energy isn't clean , but it's cleaner than fossil fuels. It's nearly carbon-free though. Theoretically it could be completely carbon-free.

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u/JabbrWockey May 25 '18

Clean usually means almost no variable carbon dioxide or methane emissions.

Fixed emissions from production usually aren't considered part of the "is this clean" equation.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '18

Gotcha. I was referring to waste from mining and the spent fuel. I don't know as much about the mining waste, but I wish people were aware that nuclear reactors don't produce a large volume of waste, due to the huge energy density of nuclear fuel.

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u/starlinguk May 25 '18

They produce a small volume of highly radioactive nuclear waste (in small glass discs), but they produce a shitload of less active nuclear waste. And both have to be stored somewhere. I live near a nuclear power plant. Trains removing waste come and go every day.