September was the most anomalously hot month ever

Re:September was the most anomalously hot month ever by seanw444 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:50AM (#37778591)

The current alternatives suck. Renewables are unreliable and produce massive waste themselves. What we need is nuclear, but I only ever hear the same people complaining about fossil fuels, complaining about nuclear. It's extremely safe. Like it's not even close.

If we can maintain the status quo with better technology, it will be adopted. It's just not there yet. Hence, we stick to what we have.

The liberal position on these societal problems is "take things away until the problem is fixed" which I find incredibly ironic, while the other's is "free market drives innovation when it's overwhelmingly necessary."

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Re:September was the most anomalously hot month ever by Zigurd on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:37AM (#37779162)

Energy capex is fungible, and nuclear energy is the most expensive. It is also carries the highest risk of cost overruns and underestimation of decommissioning costs.

Why spend a penny on fission nuclear when renewables are cheaper, have shorter lead times by decades, and are vastly less financially risky?

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Re:September was the most anomalously hot month ever by enqk on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:17PM (#37781270)

Demand too much minerals including, because they’re so much more diffuse metals like copper

High soil occupancy in competition with food crops and human activities

Cannot provide guaranteed baseline of supply without storage (more minerals)

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Re:September was the most anomalously hot month ever by Zigurd on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:40PM (#37782348)

Perhaps the Chernobyl exclusion zone could be covered with photovoltaic panels.

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Re:September was the most anomalously hot month ever by holbrad on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:46PM (#37784683)

I always find the framing of these discussions very sad.

Nuclear doesn't have to be expensive, there are many historic examples of safe reactors built for very reasonable costs. (French and earlier American reactors especially.)

Unfortunately there seems to be zero appetite to discuss let alone fix the killing of nuclear power though an absolutely crazy regulatory framework.

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Re:September was the most anomalously hot month ever by Zigurd on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:58PM (#37786411)

The French underestimated their decommissioning costs by a large factor. They will spend decades paying that down with no power being generated from the plants they are closing down.

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