Re:The Nuclear Option
by fulafel on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:21AM
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> I can't think of a more scalable way than fission to combat carbon
I think it's a techno-optimism blindspot to prefer the "make more" solution to these things.
We waste enormous amounts of energy to non-essential things.
Not just electricity production. Consider the electric cars craze. It's obviously just going to result in more emissions unless oil extraction ramps down at the same rate.
Solutions involving adaptation to lower consumption are met with protests like "then we would have to change our way of life", and for some reason that's perceived as a good argument.
I think it's a techno-optimism blindspot to prefer the "make more" solution to these things.
We waste enormous amounts of energy to non-essential things. Not just electricity production. Consider the electric cars craze. It's obviously just going to result in more emissions unless oil extraction ramps down at the same rate.
Solutions involving adaptation to lower consumption are met with protests like "then we would have to change our way of life", and for some reason that's perceived as a good argument.