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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

No it's about nuclear waste and where to store it, it's about how expensive it is to build a nuclear power plant (bc of regulations so they don't goo boom) and it's about how much you have to subsidize it to make the electricity it produces affordable at all. Economically it's just not worth it. Renewables are just WAY cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

No it's about nuclear waste and where to store it,

Is this video inaccurate? This isn't meant as a gotcha comment. https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 hours ago

Funny how people think waste is why we don't use nuclear power.

You noticed how we're all fine breathing in poison and carcinogens? Still haven't banned burning fossil fuels.

It's a money problem and a PR problem

[–] [email protected] 0 points 59 minutes ago

Renewable are so cheap, especially when we don't need as much energy! Fortunately we won't need as much energy in winter now. :-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Fire's waste is just all particulates in the air which we all share.