Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
by mciancia on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:08PM
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How do you want to move Europe to solar power?
Do we have any reasonable capability of storing excess power from summer till winter?
Why not nuclear?
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Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
by iso1631 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:12PM
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Can still generate a hell of a lot of electricity from Solar in winter, and offshore wind, and of course gas isn't going away soon.
Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
by martin_a on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:15PM
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> Why not nuclear?
- Current reactors are EOL
- No new reactors have been built since ages, although political constellations might even have been in favor to do so
- No solution for permanent storage of nuclear waste
Nuclear power is no solution at all.
Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
by zakk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:26PM
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Please, please, please stop with the waste management taking point!
There are super-safe and rather cheap ways of treating and storing nuclear waste!
It’s essentially a scaremongering talking point.
Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
by martin_a on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:29PM
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Which ways? Dumping them in some salt mines as we have done for the last 50 years? There is not a single "super-safe" and "cheap" way for Germany.
Re:Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
by zakk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:39PM
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Nuclear wastes are incredibly small, the whole energy you would need in your life would fill a soda can of wastes, if only nuclear was used.
Geological repositories are an excellent solution. Those place are geologically stable, and can contain thousand of years of wastes. It’s not very expensive to collect wastes there, as well!