Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions

Re:Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions by erlich on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:18AM (#33560478)

I always thought this too. Just googled "how many nuclear reactors for all worlds energy needs". First result: "Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs" [1].

Global energy needs at 15TW. Would need 15K nuclear plants total. Currently we have 440 @ 375GW total.

It's an interesting read.

But I agree that it is completely absurd that climate activists make such dire predictions of apocalyptic scenarios, and then won't consider a completely obvious stop-gap that would buy 100 years to get our act together.

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm....

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Re:Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions by realusername on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:27AM (#33561982)

That calculation is like taking the consumption of a car from the 60s and multiplying by the known petrol capacity at the time, it just makes absolutely no sense to predict future capacity.

It does not account in technology changes and discovery of more fuel sources. The reason it's not done yet is because the problem isn't the lack of fuel but the lack of plants.

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