Submitted 1 day ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to energy@slrpnk.net
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51898350
Their fusion and fission work is very impressive,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said of China’s nuclear innovation efforts. The country is investing more in fusion “than the rest of the world put together, times two
You lost me at ‘Bill Gates Says’.
Sure, but Gates isn’t an expert whose opinion should matter at all.
Who the fuck cares about nuclear. Renewables are the future…
Yeah who the fuck cares about limitless free clean power.
It’s the most expensive form of power we know. It’s far from clean (still shouldn’t pick too many mushrooms in parts of Europe), and it’s really funny you should bring up “limitlessness” when competing against the Sun and Wind.
If we invest in grid energy storage, we might be able to skip nuclear entirely. In the meanwhile though, we’re kinda stuck. The way I see it, nuclear power is an intermediary step that is hard to avoid.
We have all the tools we need, they are easier and built faster than NPPs. So I don’t see your point.
I think nuclear power will inevitably continue to go wrong as long as humans use it, and it could contribute to the extinction of the planet if overused, so I hope the ways it goes wrong are ways that result in people not using it where it’s not needed, instead of ways that result in no life surviving human impact
Bill Gates is a notorious capitalist. As mentioned in this article:
Gates sees nuclear power as a way to provide data centers with the power they need as well as to lower electricity costs.
He only cares about his projects and money, definitely not about people. See:
Tell Bill Gates: Stop Microsoft’s partnerships with the Israeli Military and ICE
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Fuuck hearing anything from this pedo billionaire. I’ve been seeing that jackasses name far to often lately. I guess I’ll just add it to my filter.