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assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Those are certainly difficulties that we’ll need to address. The plutonium especially. I think we could design ways however to keep it secure. It would certainly need to be carefully designed though.

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We certainly could. We do it already today in the USA with our nuclear weapons (which use Plutonium). Its all possible, its just expensive. So much so that it makes an expensive power source (nuclear) even more expensive. Why would we do this when solar costs 5 times less than regular civilian nuclear power?

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- assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s no magic bullet to our problems. Solar has issues with storage and varies day to day with the weather. I’ve got no issue making it a large supply of our energy, but we’ll need generation sources for cloudy days. We can’t presume the battery storage will be full every time we need it and it’s cloudy out.
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Who’s suggesting there’s a magic bullet? Certainly not me.
    
    I’ve got no issue making it a large supply of our energy, but we’ll need generation sources for cloudy days. We can’t presume the battery storage will be full every time we need it and it’s cloudy out.
    
    My argument is that nuclear isn’t it.
    
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    assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Fair enough – what do you propose we use instead?
    
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