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Re:Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere by petre on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:10PM (#21242238)
It's not too late to bootstrap more nuclear, but big nuclear plants don't make less sense economically nowadays. SMRs on the other hand do. NuScale's design is very interesting.
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Re:Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere by cagenut on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:16PM (#21242284)
It is specifically, exactly, too late to wait for that. Did you not look at the graph?

I'm all for continued and increased R&D funding, but the best case scenario for SMRs is they help us with the back half of the transition (2035 - 2050) not the front half (2020 - 2035).

Anything more optimist than that is simply denying the science (see ipcc report again).

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Re:Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere by petre on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:34AM (#21245712)
I did look at the graph and 2035-2050 is a better scenario than never.
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Re:Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere by cagenut on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:25PM (#21253967)
It is an utterly lost cause to discuss things with people on the internet. I specifically said "wait for" and somehow you turned that into "never".

Seriously someone just ban me from this dumb site, no one can read.

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