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Re:Cut global emissions by 7.6% per year for next decade to ... by whatshisface on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:17PM (#21642800)
>So, today pushing for nuclear does more harm than good.

You made the case for why you don't think nuclear can do any good (because it's too late), but what's the case for harm?

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Re:Cut global emissions by 7.6% per year for next decade to ... by gizmo686 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:36PM (#21642991)
Every dollar invested into nuclear is a dollar not invested into solar/wind/etc.

Building new nuclear just usn't the most effective use of limited capital to reduce emmisions at this point.

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Re:Cut global emissions by 7.6% per year for next decade to ... by tick_tock_tick on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:03PM (#21643210)
Every dollar in solar/wind/etc is wasted since it can't support the population without falling back to coal and gas. Renewable are a crapshoot relying on new storage technology that doesn't exist to make then viable. Why not focus on something we can 100% guarantee will fix the issues instead of leaving it to chance?
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Re:Cut global emissions by 7.6% per year for next decade to ... by marcosdumay on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:42AM (#21646513)
It is not only a distraction, but pushing a non-viable technology reduces the credibility of everybody that is trying to solve the problem with technology.
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