Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

• eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And a dam failure isn’t that much better than a nuclear accident, and far more common and less regulated

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  • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just building and completing a damn is worse for the environment and local ecosystems than a category seven catastrophic nuclear accident.

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re getting downvoted, but there’s some truth in it. You don’t just build a dam, you flood thousands of square miles and destroy hundreds of microcosms. Species have gone extinct due to dams.

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      • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ive come to find on reddit and lemmu that people don’t actually understand anything about nuclear energy, citing how bad Chernobyl is yet ignoring that not only is there still life in the exclusion zone, new species have emerged and been identified, where as successful dams that didn’t have any failures irrevocably damage and destroyed ecosystem upstream and downstream.

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• Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whats the source on it being about as bad?
  It releases methane, yes.
  We don’t have to do hydro. Wind and the Sun are already plenty enough.

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  • nga105@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    UNs IPCC Reports www.ipcc.ch/site/…/Chapter-5-Hydropower-1.pdf See fig 5.15. The outliers are the concern (and yes, it’s pretty much methane)

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    • Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for the paper.
      This does indeed clarify exact numbers that i didnt have.

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  • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

    Nuclear produces the least emissions over it’s life cycle and has a safety rating that flip flops with solar depending on how they want to classify accidents in construction and preparation.

    If you want a sustainable, clean and reliable future, your power grid needs Wind, Solar and Nuclear. There is absolutely no reason to exclude Nuclear Power from any green energy plan.

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OWID is probably the shittiest source on this topic. It’s funded by Bill Gates, who also directly funds nuclear power companies.

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      • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I hear a lot of people trash talking OWID but never see anyone disputing the data or otherwise proving it’s wrong. And the information it presents on a whole lines up with other information provided by other research, surveys and data points.

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