Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love nuclear

  I’m not trying to be a dick but could you explain why?

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  • capital@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not who you asked but look at France’s energy mix compared to the US.

    Imagine where the US could be today regarding emissions if we had kept up with nuclear this whole time.

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    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I totally get that but that ship has sailed with renewables being way cheaper now.

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      • Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Perhaps a bad example because most people undermine them, but China has still decided to move forward with 4 different nuclear facilities this year despite having an ABUNDANCE of solar manufacturing. If they found that decision worthwhile I would think the opposite, assuming most of the reasoning is current battery tech can’t sustain dark periods at a massive scale, but I’m not an expert.

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  • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @IchNichtenLichten
    Not OP, but why not love it? It's one of the cleanest, greenest, safest, and efficient power sources we have.
    @Gormadt

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    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is exactly why I love nuclear

      And who can forget the classic, “Where is the waste from fossil fuels? Take a deep breath, it’s in your lungs. Where is the waste from nuclear power? Where we store it.”

      Yes their have been disasters but the waste from those are tracked, in a specific location, and can be cleaned up. The default state of fossil fuels hits every living breathing thing on Earth.

      And even factoring in the impact from disasters nuclear is still the safest. And we have even safer designs for reactors nowadays then the reactors that had those disasters.

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      • skulblaka@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nuclear suffers from the airplane fallacy where when something goes wrong it tends to go really wrong and a lot of people die at once and it makes the news. But fact is, many orders of magnitude more people have died from fossil fuel plants, mining, byproducts, and combustion. They just die slower, in smaller groups, so it doesn’t get reported on as easily.

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      • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And now we’re in an age of nuclear fusion. My kid or grandkids may live in a world powered by even cleaner reactors. Which is great because they will probably have to live entirely indoors.

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    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, I get that. My priorities are clean energy that is as cheap as possible and nuclear just can’t compete on cost.

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      • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @IchNichtenLichten
        It might have a higher initial upfront cost, but the return on investment over a plant's whole lifetime makes it one of the cheapest. And even then, they don't take long to break even.

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      • JamesFire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How about we regulate all the other power sources as heavily as we regulate nuclear?

        This is an extremely unfair comparison, because nuclear has to do things (Even leaving aside the Nuclear part of it) that no other energy source does.

        You know any coal supply chains that have to track each atom that they ever dig up?

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