• innermachine@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I mean better nuclear than burning coal. I don’t get why nuclear has such a bad wrap, it’s a reliable zero emissions way to produce power, takes up way less space than a solar or wind farm and the only down side is the nuclear waste produced. Its not the best option sure, but far from the worst! Lots of fear mongering about melt downs, but if your gonna cry about that u better not advocate for electric cars because God forbid those batteries can light up too once in a blue moon! Hell just a few weeks ago an electric car and seperate incident an elec bus burnt down a set of toll booths not too far from me. Then then one lit up again while on the roll back. Can’t remember the last nuclear melt down around here though ;)

    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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      6 days ago

      But still worse than renewables.

      Far more expensive, it’s centralized and therefore a war target (good luck trying to destroy 100 million solar installations on 100 million different houses instead) and the source of fuel rods for Europe is currently a sanctioned country that is running amok in Ukraine.

      It’s useful to establish a base of energy when Renewables don’t produce enough and there are no other decentralized options, but otherwise, it should not be considered IMO.