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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by PaulHoule on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:35PM (#29152541)
We are hearing crazy talk about using Fischer-Tropsch chemistry to make jet fuel for the same reason we are hearing so much about direct air capture and other pipe dreams.

If we really decarbonized everything easy to decarbonize (including cars) we'd have very little to worry about.

Moving the focus to airplanes and other science fiction, we create an excuse to not decarbonize what can be decarbonized.

Also, next generation nuclear reactors like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_salt_reactor

run at high temperatures which can produce hydrogen which can be put to all kinds of climate-protecting uses.

Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by godelski on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:45PM (#29152682)
This is just false. There's a lot of sectors that produce emissions besides electricity and transportation. They aren't exactly getting their energy through other means, which still produce emissions. The climate crisis is a very difficult problem to solve and it isn't helping pretending that the only thing we need to do is get electric cars and convert our electric generation sources to zero emission sources. It is far more complicated than that. We also have to do it in a way that the rest of the world (which is 85% of emissions) can afford.