Comment on Anon questions our energy sector

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why not build it in a remote location then?

  Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don’t build dams upstream of a large town.

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Chernobyl reactor’s explosion had impacts all the way in West Europe.

    I don’t think you can be remote enough with this.

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• jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.

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    • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some experts would argue it’s already starting to be uninhabitable.

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• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think a town burning down would be fatal for most the inhabitants 3000 BC

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.

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