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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Crazy people still get downvoted in Lemmy for reminding everyone that Nuclear energy is the most expensive form of generating power while solar, wind, and water are the cheapest.

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  • RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    generating power while solar, wind, and water are the cheapest

    When you include storage, this is far, far from the case. Otherwise you are pairing solar with natural gas peaker plants, which defeat a good bit of the point of renewables.

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  • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People just eat the “nuclear waste isn’t a problem actually ignore that in some places we’re already seeing it wasn’t stored safely aftet all” propaganda from the nuclear lobby right up.

    And forget that just because nuclear plants are pretty damn safe when everything is done properly, people are notoriously great at not doing things properly, hence why 2 of the things have melted down so far (though i should say the same applies to hydro, except I only know of 1 disaster instead of 2, and the financial damage is less because water doesnt contaminate the ground for forever. Killed a lot of people though).

    I’ll take it over fossil fuels still because co2 is also a huge problem, and having nuclear waste at all is a bigger problem than adding slightly more while we transition to full renewables.

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