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- Ageing nuclear plant in Florida at risk from climate crisis, advocates warn | Regulators extended the life of two of the oldest US reactors in Miami. Millions of people in the area are now vulnerablewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 hours ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
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- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 4 days ago:
When you started comparing numbers of deaths you lost me, for several reasons. Comparing deaths of nuclear meltdowns with dams or coal mining seems a bit of a stretch to me, because it’s like forgetting how radiation works. It’s not visible but the toll of radiation on other living beings and the environment is, and should not be neglected imo.
For the comparison of uranium mining and coal mining, I am not sure that talking about these specific numbers of deaths help to get the whole picture. What I mean is that due to coal mining employing more workers than uranium mining, in a way I am not surprised by the numbers you provided. I wanted to find something showing the percentages of mortality rates by mining sector but I didn’t manage to do so. If you or anyone have something, please share.
In relation to nuclear waste, I totally disagree mainly because the ocean is not a dumpster. Apart from that, last time I checked, there were unresolved issues with this technique. Potential leaks (from defective unit, material degradation, earthquakes etc) that endanger marine environment. These are even more concerning because of difficulties of monitoring because they are in the seabed. Out of sight, out of mind does not apply to nuclear waste.
- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 4 days ago:
I’m not too sure about this take. There is also another one:
The shared history of oil and nuclear energy - The Maastricht University History Department Blog
The oil company Mobil in particular invested heavily in the development of this technique during the 1960s. Therefore, when Mobil got into uranium mining in 1968, their engineers got quickly ahead of the traditional mining companies in furthering the development of the leaching technique in the uranium sector. In the ten years following the entry of Mobil in the uranium (…)
A 1976 Federal Trade Commission report found that twelve of the top 25 uranium mining and milling companies in the United States that controlled 95% of all US uranium reserves were partly owned by oil firms.
- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 4 days ago:
Nuclear is not stable nor reliable. Reliability for me is also related to safety. It is well know that this technology has issues related to problems briefly mentioned in this article in the following sections:
- Weapons Proliferation Risk
- Meltdown Risk
- Waste Risk
Also, it looks like you did not address any of the problematic aspects of nuclear. Which also include the following:
- Long Time Lag Between Planning and Operation
- Cost
- Mining Lung Cancer Risk
- Carbon-Equivalent Emissions and Air Pollution
- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 4 days ago:
Energy storage is an issue also due to the mining it needs.
Still, I don’t understand why you think this one problem you mention is more important than the 7 of the article, to the point of saying:
nuclear is still a better choice today regardless of the problems
Could you please explain?
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- Comment on Proxima Fusion Unveils Stellaris: A Breakthrough in Fusion Power 4 days ago:
There is also this point of view for nuclear:
Nuclear power is not a renewable energy, given that it expends its fuel source, uranium, though there is a huge lobby seeking to promote it. Countries began adopting nuclear energy in the first place not for its energy benefits, but because it advanced their nuclear weapons programs. Nuclear plants come with a constant risk of meltdown, releasing large amounts of deadly radiation into the atmosphere and potentially making the territory uninhabitable for millennia. In the West, pop cultural rep- resentations of the Chernobyl meltdown ascribe the disaster to Soviet incompetence, but meltdowns and near meltdowns at Fukushima, Japan, Three Mile Island, United States, and Loir-et-Cher, France, shine a light on Cold War propaganda and show that no regime is immune to disaster. In fact, over one hundred nuclear accidents have occurred since 1952, the largest share of them in the US. But the daily, effective operation of a nuclear power plant may be even worse than a meltdown. In 2011, 75 percent of US nuclear power sites were found to be leaking radioac- tive tritium.^28^ Depleted plutonium rods have a half-life of 24,000 years, which, for reference, is far longer than agriculture or wheels have existed, more than 40 times longer than the longest lasting state survived, and roughly 500 to 1000 times longer than your typical nuclear storage site goes without experiencing a major leak. Nuclear proponents argue that the rods constitute a small volume of toxic material compared to mine tailing from coal production, for example. They tend to leave out the millions of tons of radioactive uranium mine tailings (11 million tons from a single site in Utah) and the 1.2 million metric tons of depleted uranium produced by uranium enrichment.^29^ This radioactive byprod- uct has a half-life of 4,400 million years (or, roughly the current age of the Earth). Inexcusably, those who developed nuclear technology invented no way to safely store all that waste for the amount of time it will pose a lethal danger to all life, and no such storage technology is even on the horizon. Many nuclear waste storage facilities have been found to leak radioactive compounds into the environment.
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- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 week ago:
There is a No lawn one ;)
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 week ago:
In representative democracies, every 4-5 years a government can be elected that changes policies to a totally different direction. This is a feature of the system, not a bug - so no surprise there. When the system is rotten from within, even fascists can get elected.
For me, this is one more proof that reforms don’t work and systemic change is needed. As long as we (the people), don’t take the decision making power in our hands, this is what we’ll keep getting.
- Who controls Ireland's offshore wind? Spoiler: Not Irish companies | Big oil, governments and one of Europe’s largest polluters are among the developers of planned projects off our coastwww.thejournal.ie ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, perhaps read again the example I mentioned?
- Comment on Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, of course I believe green energy should be implemented more. Still, I believe there is room for criticism and this is what this report does (btw I’m definitely not a fan of Greenpeace). Actually, I believe this sort of criticism is necessary because we live under capitalism.
A kinda similar example I could give from Europe would be in relation to some protected areas called Natura 2000. Briefly, in some of these places wind turbines are installed by the thousands and the locals are protesting against that and they say stuff like “No to wind turbines”. I would not expect, nor need from these people to talk about the benefits of wind turbines.
- Comment on Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says 2 weeks ago:
There are definitely valid criticism of neo-colonialism, but I don’t see how it ticks the greenwashing box.
To my understanding, the greewashing part, is more related to the title of the article, not the report itself.
In MENA, traditional/ancestral ways are not exactly femininist.
Two things in relation to that statement:
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Muslim places have never been homogeneous, nor are they now. The position of women has been very different from place to place, but through time as well. For example, in the past women in Islamic law had the right to divorce long before the European ones had, and they had the right to property. That said, I am not denying that, just like Christianity, it is a patriarchy-based religion.
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The way I read the title is quite different: Pursuing Feminism and People-First Wellbeing Economies through Leveraging Communal, Traditional, and Ancestral Models
You know what is absent in that report? Discussion about the climate impact of transtioning from hydrocarbon industries into renewable.
It does talk quite a lot about renewable energy. Personally, I don’t have the need in this talk to include the term “transition” because so far, policies talk about transition and what they do is “addition”, because extraction is not diminishing.
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- Comment on Power to the microbes: Reclaiming traditional foods for a degrowth food future 5 weeks ago:
The boiling thing sounds like a great tip
- Comment on Power to the microbes: Reclaiming traditional foods for a degrowth food future 5 weeks ago:
If you have a good link on how to do pickled vegetables or with tips, please share!
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- A UK energy company received $762M in ‘green loans’ despite years of pollution violations in the Southgrist.org ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to globalnews@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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