Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled

NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does solar power use some rare earth minerals and stuff like that? They own those, but you probably need them for nuclear and others

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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t put a nuclear station on my roof or in my basement

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Were you… Were you going to?

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      • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, a teenage boy scout once built something like an amateur reactor in a shed in his parents backyard shed, so I see nothing wrong with a tractor on the roof or in a basement.

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    • willis936@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Watch me.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Currently, no. With enough investments in nuclear and less fear mongering, it’s possible that’s be an option. Small scale nuclear reactors can exist and can be safe, and the amount of nuclear material they’d need is fairly small.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes and so do the batteries and all the controls.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s not necessarily a need for batteries. I’m generating energy and use it up directly, and inject the overage back into the grid against a compensation, and then at night or during times of heavy cloud coverage, I draw power from the grid pretty much on par with the money I received. So far it’s a zero sum game or slightly profitable.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok cool. So you outsourced the battery needs to someone else. Good job. Hey I figured out how to fix global warming, all we need to do is move all the stuff that causes it to different countries.

        Didn’t address the controls I noticed.

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  • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah every power source needs some materials.

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  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Silicon, iirc

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Made from sand. A very rareaterial.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah go ahead and make a solar system with the dirt you have on your land. All you are doing is supporting one group of corporations over another. Worst argument I have ever seen for solar is what you have presented today.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey everyone, this comment doesn’t say that solar is bad. It says this isn’t the argument for solar the OP thinks it is. Solar requires a whole lot of mining and refining. Nuclear actually requires less. Using the same argument, nuclear is the better option. It’s just a stupid argument.

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Solar power was actually pushed by big oil in the 70s, 80s and 90s because they were afraid of nuclear.

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