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Removing AUX ports, forcing people to throw away their headphones, because you ALSO nowhere sell your overpriced USB DACs.
Climate Destruction
Stealing already existing nature land, forcing people out of it, and "taking care of it" and get carbon credits for it like what?
Mine Coal or Oil in 2024. Same with building nuclear plants.
We had a thing in Germany, where nuclear industries needed to pay for the disposal of nuclear waste. Instead of calculating real numbers, they should invest โ or less of the actually needed money into trust funds. Like... what? Money doesnt grow just like that, it comes from exploiting workers, and "magically" they didnt need to pay that much. And of course that was too little so now the tax payers have to pay for these horrible companies.
Nuclear energy is significantly greener than coal and oil, IIRC. As well, there are a lot of places where it can be hard to get enough energy from renewable sources like hydro and solar.
Nuclear energy is slow, which is why things like "night storage heating" where invented, which store the unneeded heat generated at night.
We have a constant electricity demand and a varying. Especially if we use "smart" devices (nothing IOT, just washing machines only washing during the day) the constant demand can be decreased a lot.
So as we are awake roughly around the time that we can produce solar energy, and have wind for the constant part, we dont need nuclear power, really.
Also building these plants takes years which we dont have.
And nothing is sustainable if it produces non-disposable nuclear waste that will likely live longer than humanity on this planet.
I'm definitely pro solar, wind, and other renewable sources of energy. I'm just not convinced that nuclear shouldn't be included in a "greenification" of energy sources.
As an aside, I live somewhere where the days are pretty short in the winter, and even then, we get ~25 days of cloudy weather per month between December and February. Last year it felt like I didn't see the sun in 2023 until April, aside from a couple of days here and there (mostly in March).
Thankfully, most of our power comes from hydro anyways.