There's issues with energy storage density that need to be covered but over half the problem could be solved with using nuclear power as the commercial backbone, especially some of the more long lived isotope reactors with several hundred years of production. Plus the modular reactor tech for scale
It's a hope that the oil asscoons lose out their influence and we get actual traction on energy alternatives. Sadly as long as their empowered and people are willing to sell out it's a gd joke :(
it's not even just the carbon emmissions, a fully functional coal-fired power plant produces an amount of radiation that's actually kind of insane (due to the isotopes present in the coal) and it all gets spewed directly into the air
But a refinery doesn't even have to explode. Just normal operation is causing a wide variety of health problems over a large area that's shaving years of peoples' lives. It's insidious because it's so subtle.
Honestly 99% of a reactor "going wrong" results in the reactor shutting down with no danger to anybody besides the poor bastard on managing duty who just had a heart attack over hitting the scram button
You figure how many plants there were at peak production and the Big 3 accidents being Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.
Even in those Worst Case Scenarios, their individual Worst Case Scenarios didn't happen.
Three Mile Island and Fukushima are largely back to normal pre-accident. Chernobyl is the closest to "what if things go wrong" and we have both learned so much since then (new reacot designs and nuclear disaster response--see Fukushima) and, in the West, live under more accountable regimes.
Sure, it may help to ease up the current amount of emissions in areas of dense population, but this is like bringing over a bucket when the sink is overflowing and doing nothing about the faucet.
Agreed. I would so appreciate an organization that told us concrete ways to reduce our waste and helped like organize polls or letters to companies telling them we consumers would LOVE for them to stop using styrofoam or single use plastic. None exist that are in our lives in a big, consistent way.
I think it’s going to take an organization helping consumers just KNOW these things without thinking about it too much. I’m never sure what I can or can’t recycle, for example. When I lived in the UK that info was plastered everywhere by the government. No thinking needed, better recycling outcome.
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But fossil fuel energy production working as intended is demonstrably worse.
In the US, for example, it's only been in the last decade that the DOE has passed waivers for reactors with no weapon production capability
Those things go up hard with a strong aftershock wave.
C'mon, folks! They made a disaster movie about it and everything!
But it's safer than nuclear.. Yeah, right.
Boy howdy do I have news for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_wells
(and this is why we don't generally build RBMK-style reactors anymore, kids.)
CANDU reactors don't explode.
Even in those Worst Case Scenarios, their individual Worst Case Scenarios didn't happen.
Sorry SL-1, too many 3s involved for my brain
Sure, it may help to ease up the current amount of emissions in areas of dense population, but this is like bringing over a bucket when the sink is overflowing and doing nothing about the faucet.
Now, if this system automatically builds giant statues like in The Peripheral, I'm still here for it.
Noted.
Central Park only does so much and the city refuses to do jack shit about the unused properties.
This walking tour playlist was recorded in 2022 while Louis Rossmann was looking for a place to move his business.
NYC doesn't give half a shit.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2lt_n88l7WC2u22TRHKmw8ya&si=sIoUDH5f9DeXJA_b
Greed devours everything.