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Well yeah, it’s a service. Expecting profit from necessary services is stupid and counter-productive but it makes a few people rich so of course it happens then you get memes like this.
Efficient use of resources still matters in a service-driven model.
The service in this case is to provide electricity - if other alternatives can provide the same system of electricity while using less resources in the process, then it is clearly preferable.
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I don’t know what this has to do with my post at all to be honest
It’s relevant because the less-resource-efficient oil industry has lobbied to make nuclear power artificially inefficient so that their industry can continue to exist.
I don’t think anyone is arguing for the oil industry.
Even if nuclear power plant byproducts were re-used at 100%, this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.
this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.
Maybe true only at small scale.
why is there such a negative sentiment towards nuclear power? was it all oil and gas propaganda? or is there some truth
Chernobyl, Fukushima, 3 Mile Island. Plus uranium is another non-renewable resource.
I’m still pro nuke as getting off fossil fuels is of the utmost urgency, but we will have to learn to live off wind and solar.
Ideally we figure out some sweet Nuclear Fusion.
Having become a carbon neutral economy a couple years ago since we obviously adhere to the Paris agreement this does not seem like a good solution as we already (would have to have) deployed solutions based on current technology.
Agree that we can get to carbon neutral / carbon negative with current tech.
I do think making plans based on having it are foolish at best.
But I do think we need to keep working on research of it. If we ever hope to achieve a world with “electricity too cheap to meter”, nuclear fusion is the key to it. (That and dyson spheres, but that’s kinda not in scope of discussion).
Ah yes, the Fusion Reactors that are coming soon ™ (promised decades ago).
We need energy now, not at some unknown point in the future. Of course, resaeching this technology may make sense. But it does not help today and also not the next 20 years.
Yeah, putting your hopes / goals on a fusion powered future is foolish at this point.
But I def support (lots of) research into it.