Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re...
by thereisnospork on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:04PM
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>Our current cooling solutions aren't carbon free.
Are you referring to HVAC cooling (refrigerators, heat pumps, etc.), or reactor cooling (cooling tower, etc.)? Neither has any intrinsic carbon emissions though. HVAC needs electricity[0], but has no emissions other than incidental CFC release[1]. Nuclear / industrial equipment cooling typically needs water, but doesn't release any carbon.
[0]Ostensibly nuclear in the context of this thread.
[1]Mostly a non issue post Montreal-Protocol
You also can't talk about next-generation reactors because they don't exist right now (at least in production).
What I'm trying to say here is that this doesn't help our pro-nuclear case. It is cherry picking post hoc analysis. Climate change would still be a real problem, even with our leg up. Because frankly, climate change is much harder than getting solar, wind, and nuclear everywhere. It is also bigger than America, the EU, and China (total of 54%).