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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by samwillis on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:14PM (#31623495)
Other people will explain why you are wrong to be concerned. However your concern is indicative of the concerns of a significant, potentially majority, of people. It shows how as a society we don't do messaging about this sort of thing well enough. I think thats an important take away.
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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by BurningFrog on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:05AM (#31627913)
To oversimplify, I think the default posture in western society has become "let's not do anything, in case it goes wrong".

People who think like that are seen as serious people who don't foolishly ignore all possible negative consequences.

I, as the reader might guess by now, don't have high hopes for societies that function this way.

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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by salawat on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:38PM (#31633659)
Nooo... The default is "do your due diligence".

As it turns out, there's a LOT more we can do now (that is actually hard work to boot) than we've necessarily been able to do before.

If you actually take the phrase "reasonably forseeable" seriously, I assure you, chasing down those nasty little details and feeding them through the math takes a hot minute.

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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by politician on Saturday June 04, 2022 @03:05PM (#31623999)
We do a bad job of explaining to residents of our dense population centers how much energy is required to run their city for a single day, where it comes from, and how much it costs to produce.
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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by wumpus on Sunday June 05, 2022 @04:05AM (#31628949)
Don't rural dwellers use more energy, per capita?
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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by politician on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:15AM (#31653043)
Per capita is a poor way of looking at the scope of this particular problem. We can service that one farm with several thousand gallons of diesel. It’s an understandable power generation problem with units normal people understand.

Powering a city is at another entirely different scale, and “diesel” doesn’t come close to addressing the magnitude of that problem.

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