Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 year agoEnvironmental groups are the biggest opposition to new nuclear builds.
Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 year agoEnvironmental groups are the biggest opposition to new nuclear builds.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Which is ironic because they like electric vehicles, and spent car batteries will soon become just as big of a problem as nuclear waste.
It’s a bit of “not seeing the forest for the trees” situation, we have an immediate climate problem we’re trying to stave off, if these are the things that will wean us off fossil energy than that’s what we have to do for now and we’ll cross that other bridge when we come to it.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The fallacy here is that any reactor that you initiate for planning even immediately at this very moment will come years or decades too late to affect our power composition and keep us under 1.5°C, which means that such projects distract society from the importance of green/renewable energy solutions like wind or solar, which we CAN expand very quickly and which WILL have a measurable effect on mitigating the effects of climate change. Solar and wind are the only things that can replace fossil in time.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
True, but let’s not forget that there are lots of perfectly good reactors sitting around unused, who could be brought back online within a practical time frame. Existing reactors is really what the debate is about, not those that don’t exist.
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
You can recycle lithium batteries.