Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by natmaka on Saturday September 05, 2020 @08:05AM
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The Germany/France ratio of emissions is relevant because the real difference of emissions if much lower than your graph shows (at worse 1.4 instead of 1.7), and I described (above) why: France has less industry (<=> emissions for stuff is done elsewhere), is less rich (less stuff) and its climate is less cold. It is pertinent because it shows that nuclear power isn't a major factor there. But we both already agree on this (nuclear cannot solve the climate challenge) because you wrote other CO2-emitting sectors "land use and agriculture, heat, industry".
I don't think you are anti-renewables, please quote any sentence of mine letting you believe it. I don't think that nuclear is part of a solution, that's my point here, and my arguments are in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24381421
Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by godelski on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:12PM
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You seemed to miss the part where I, twice, referenced CO2eq emissions per capita from energy along and not country wide.
Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by natmaka on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:53PM
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Your sentence was "France has one of the lowest CO2 emissions per capita" (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371196 ), and in our context I understood that you presented it at a result mostly due to the use of nuclear power, however it absolutely isn't (nuclear power only offers a tiny fraction of this achievement, at the price of many new difficult problems).
Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by godelski on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:12AM
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Literally the first sentence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376918
I'm not sure why this is relevant. France has constantly been one of the best in Europe and Germany has been one of the worst (revisiting my link[0]). I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. That everyone can improve? Of course. That Germany cares more than France? Well probably. It is a much larger problem then them for France. France left their hose and all their faucets on over night. Germany busted a water main and their house is sinking. Makes sense that they are more concerned. Or maybe you're suggesting that German had a larger reduction in emissions? Congrats, they are almost at the peak of France's output. Either way, I don't get what you are suggesting here.
More importantly, why are you still thinking I'm anti-renewables? Have I not been clear on this matter? I'm also not convinced you're reading what I write anyways because we've addressed several of your concerns already and you're pushing claims on me that I don't hold and have already reiterated that I do not hold. I might as well quote the Jabberwocky.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...