Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight against climate change?

Re:Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight agai... by jollybean on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:43AM (#28113091)

You must be young? You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly. Or as part of 'cultural memory'? I'm too young, but I remember people talking about it.

We could literally build those identical, 1960's style designs if we absolutely had to.

Of course, we'd build something a little more modern, even just a little more modern Canadian CANDU reactors would work.

We take forever to build them for organizational reasons, not because there's something that's inherently difficult that takes 30 years to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

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Re:Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight agai... by tuatoru on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:29AM (#28113307)

> You must be young?

I wish.

> You do remember when France is 85% Nuclear and they built out their entire national infrastructure very quickly.

No, I don't remember it; I was a long way away and young. I still don't speak French.

Yes, it's a bit sad that we can no longer do what a bunch of French bureaucrats with their 30-hour work weeks and 8-week vacances could do in the 1970s--even when we're desperate.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight agai... by jollybean on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:43AM (#28117526)

We could do it immediately.

We could literally copy their not-very-good designs if we had to.

Those plants are still effective and operational and provide a major economy with 85% (!!!) of their electricity.

They build them quickly and it's worked out fine.

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