Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards

Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by p0nce on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:40AM (#14086743)

In France we have much nuclear energy, yes it doesn't create much CO2 but the downsides are severe: expensive, long cycles, energy has to be stored in dams anyway. Nuclear incidents get concealed regularly. Leaving nuclear energy is expensive itself.

It seems solar and wind are better investments.

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Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by kk_cz on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:40AM (#14095597)

IMHO part of the problem is that globally the entire field of nuclear energy was underfunded. Sure, the Chernobyl disaster was horrifying, but it is as if humankind stopped trying for aviation after first passengers were killed in an accident.

If all the money that were poured into anti-nuclear propaganda and research of unstable and extremely low-yield [1] sources like wind and solar we might have had clean nuclear power by now.

[1] http://www.rebresearch.com/blog/nuclear-vs-wind-and-solar-la...

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