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A comment on Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants. Parent comment
It’s fair to bring up hypotheticals, but you have to do it for everything you’re comparing!
It’s especially important to include “never happened” scenarios for brand new, or lightly used, methods of energy extraction!
What are the worst case scenarios for windmills? Solar panels?
Imagine a major Soviet-level accident at a rare earth element mine.
Imagine a large supply of rare earth metals are improperly labeled.
It might not be as bad as a major nuclear accident … then again maybe it would be.
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It’s fair to bring up hypotheticals, but you have to do it for everything you’re comparing!
It’s especially important to include “never happened” scenarios for brand new, or lightly used, methods of energy extraction!
What are the worst case scenarios for windmills? Solar panels?
Imagine a major Soviet-level accident at a rare earth element mine.
Imagine a large supply of rare earth metals are improperly labeled.
It might not be as bad as a major nuclear accident … then again maybe it would be.