• @jabjoe@feddit.uk
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      121 month ago

      Too late. Somewhere so sunny can get a lot of solor quickly. Building nuclear power plants takes time and releases a lot of CO2. Batteries and solor now now. Cheapest power too.

      • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        -81 month ago

        Only too late because Greenpeace stopped it for decades. Hope you have a plan for your solar waste. Cheapest because you just let China throw it away for you.

            • @jabjoe@feddit.uk
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              01 month ago

              It’s a new area, but there are companies : https://www.recyclesolar.co.uk/

              Life cycle comparing isn’t as simple as your thinking: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421506002758 Happy to look if you have a unbiased source for life cycle emissions comparison.

              But costs and time is a no brainer: https://www.energysage.com/about-clean-energy/nuclear-energy/solar-vs-nuclear/

              You as also don’t want to be burning coal for a decade while you build a nuclear power plant. Then it’s expensive to run compared to solar too. The CO2 costs of waiting for nuclear should be included for nuclear too.

              • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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                -21 month ago

                I know it’s a new area. I am involved with it. Now show me the one that has a lower carbon footprint today. Including batteries btw no cheating

                • @jabjoe@feddit.uk
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                  1 month ago

                  That’s part of the issue with nuclear, it’s not today. It’s a decade to do, power coal in the mean time, pouring concrete which also cause a load of CO2. When it’s finally running, it’s clean, but expensive. In the mean time you could have solar running 8 years and it is cheaper to power and install. Nuclear is going to struggle to compete. Until fusion, but even that, if it ever comes, might not be cheap enough compared. Cheap, fast and clean wins.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      101 month ago

      Those nuclear power plants won’t come online for a decade at least. It’s better to spend the money on renewables and storage.

      • @SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        And if we started building them a decade ago we would have them now. We need to start building them now, because it’s only gonna be worse in 10 years.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          -31 month ago

          By then it will be too late, especially considering the extra CO2 that building them will create with no electricity provided at all

          • @SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
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            31 month ago

            That is hilariously naive. The world is gonna keep turning either way. People aren’t just gonna suddenly all up and disappear. And the climate isn’t like a thing where you reach a certain point and you just give up. We can lessen how bad things will be. Making nuclear now is the right choice, so that in 10 years we can cut as many polluting forms of energy as we can.

            • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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              01 month ago

              I’d rather spend $10 billion on renewables that would start coming online almost immediately than lock that money up in a plant that won’t start recouping the carbon debt from its construction in a decade.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        Greenpeace advocated for this back in the 1970s and that’s why we have an enormous wind and solar industry today. The Greenpeace lobby was just too damned powerful.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          61 month ago

          The reason we didn’t build any reactors after the 1970s is a combination of nuclear disarmament and slow return on investment, not Greenpeace. If Greenpeace had that much power they would have been able to shut down the oil and gas industry, too.