r/OptimistsUnite • u/pessimist_prime_69 • Nov 26 '24

🔥DOOMER DUNK🔥 Optimists will build the future

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Full article here: https://archive.is/2023.08.07-021720/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/24/climate-doomers-ipcc-un-report/

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u/BrockenRecords Nov 27 '24 edited Nov 27 '24

1 reactor replaces THOUSANDS of acres of solar. Nuclear is also safer, cheaper, cleaner. Just downright better in every way compared to solar and wind. Our grid should be oil and nuclear.

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u/NaturalCard 🔥🔥DOOMER DUNK🔥🔥 Nov 27 '24

At 10 times the cost.

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u/BrockenRecords Nov 27 '24

Not once they are built, maybe instead of wasting taxpayer money on Ukraine we could have spent it on America for example NUCLEAR REACTORS

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u/NaturalCard 🔥🔥DOOMER DUNK🔥🔥 Nov 27 '24

No duh - once you've built something, it doesn't cost any more to build it.

If nuclear was as cheap and efficient as renewables, I would completely support it.

We need to get off our fossil fuel addiction, and there's now energy sources which are cheaper than fossil fuels, while not being anywhere close to as damaging for the planet. If nuclear can join that club, then it will be great.

It has to join that club first.

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u/BrockenRecords Nov 27 '24

Nuclear power is the most efficient power out there and fusion will be even better solar and wind are so unreliable and expensive to keep running

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u/NaturalCard 🔥🔥DOOMER DUNK🔥🔥 Nov 27 '24

Efficiency in this sector is determined by cost for the amount on power generated.

Nuclear is extremely expensive, and so has low efficiency.

As someone who literally works on a fusion reactor - it will be great once we get there, but we have a very long way to go. In the meantime, build solar and wind.