Lumisal
@Lumisal@lemmy.world
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
That’s basically what Finland is doing, with a few extra steps.
The whole waste thing isn’t an unsolved issue, it’s purely a political one.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I know there’s the joke that Finland doesn’t exist, but didn’t know people like you who took it seriously.
From 2019. Yes, we’ve figured out how to store it permanently. The country of 5 million somehow figured out what the hundreds of millions in Germany, USA, and others couldn’t.
Or more accurately, actually did it. The solution has been known for awhile.
Also, never said a private company had to do anything - that’s just a strawman you brought up.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Compared to Fossil fuels that’ll stay in the air for thousands of years while they essentially terraform the planet into something way less habitable for humans? How the hell is that more logical???
Finland is a bit too north and cold for rapid deployment and storage of renewables. Although summer is excellent for solar, winter makes solar barely useful and can decrease some wind (newer designs help a lot with the snow issue).
Germany is more stable, but electrical storage is still an issue, along with the larger population. Having planned at least 1 new power plant while decommissioning the older ones would have made a lot more sense while transitioning to 100% renewables. Spent nuclear fuel doesn’t use much space - the spent fuel can be stored underground in containers in deep bed rock in drilled shafts and then cemented over. It’s less effort and resources that what Germany’s many mining companies use extracting minerals or fossil fuels.
Can’t do the same for all that pollution your damn lignite plants make though.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and like most of Europe, that German population lives in cities, not random forests and mountains in the middle of nowhere where you could also do underground storage like Finland has done.
Not to mention Germany has more land.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to note it’s not profitable because it generates so much energy so consistently that it’s hard to keep prices up.
That’s why nuclear energy should never have been a private sector investment but a government one, or maybe hybrid. That’s how it’s worked in Finland, and the new reactor we had built plus the growing solar really saved us from the electricity spike after Russian gas was turned off.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Weird how y’all haven’t figured it out yet considering Finland had and Germany has had nuclear power plants for longer.
But I suspect it’s more of a lack of wanting to do what’s needed for storage because ‘politics’ and boomers than it is because it’s not possible.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 4 weeks ago:
It’s weird to have that strong of a reaction. At the very least it sounds debilitating.
Wrinkly Duo just looks like an old person version of Duo to most. It’s not even uncanny valley because Duo is not even close to human like (unless you know green bird like humans in real life, but then I’m not sure they’re human).
If that scares you, so would a very wrinkly old person.
There is therapy to lower that extreme reaction you have, called desensitization therapy. You should look into it.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 4 weeks ago:
I, uhh, I think you need desensitization therapy. But just so you know, most people don’t find that face scary.
- Comment on Turn up the heat 4 weeks ago:
“Sorry, I’m not the brain. I don’t do the thinking”
- Comment on mycology 1 month ago:
My strongest mushrooms would kill you, traveler. You can’t handle my strongest mushrooms. You’d better go to a seller that sells weaker mushrooms.
- Comment on mycology 1 month ago:
My mushrooms are too strong for you, traveller