Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019)

Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by germinalphrase on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:43AM (#34027271)

We never transcended oil for fission as we did for coal. Our way of life is still riding a glut of fossil fuel use. This probably won’t matter in my lifetime, but that energy glut is not infinite - and we still need fossil fuels to produce that ‘renewable’ and fission equipment.

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Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by _dain_ on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:12AM (#34027473)

>We never transcended oil for fission as we did for coal.

that was a political choice, not practical.

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Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by germinalphrase on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:41AM (#34027650)

Political vs practical fission stagnation is a perennial HN debate.

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Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by armatav on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:41PM (#34035109)

Yeah so remember don’t shower for nine minutes while the glass factory down the road offsets your entire towns carbon footprint for its lifespan in a single day.

If you want to eat the bugs, do it; but on behalf of everyone who wants to take a bath, it’s not our problem. These countries have fission, they refuse to use it, and their interest groups guilt trip you into 19th century standards of living.

Luh-mao, is all I have to say to that.

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Re:Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? (2019) by germinalphrase on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:31PM (#34044511)

I think you’ve misread my “we need fossil fuels/fission isn’t a slam dunk” comment.

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