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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

All the nuclear stuff happens in one place, with a few people minding it. But they do have to be super careful and know what they're doing.

And if there's a critical flaw in the reactor design (looking at you Chernobyl) it can go very very wrong.

Renewables are all spread out, and a lot more people manage it for the power output.

That also means a lot more people have power-related jobs.

Fossil Fuels, Methane (Natural Gas) and Coal are just ugly all around. But they have really, really great lobbyists.

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[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 4 points 2 months ago

How many cases of cancer are caused by burning fossil fuels and micro plastics from tires? I bet a fucking dick load.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Sharks kill more people on a case by case basis.

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[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is the implication that NIMBYs are generally speaking pro-renewables? Because my experience is that they fucking hate wind power because they think they look ugly.

If anything, nuclear is more popular with the NIMBY crowd around here since you need fewer of them, and the chances of them happening to be in your backyard is hence way lower.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Read the thread and tell me most the people here are not in my back yards

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Public trust in governments and the private sector is at an all time low, all around the world. And that's an earned reputation.

Nuclear energy is a promising solution, but there are risks associated with it that cannot be ignored.

Can you trust a government that can't even feed it's poor and house them to properly dispose of all nuclear waste used at scale? I doubt it. Even if it's done right for a while, that handling will erode because everything in our system does. That's the problem.

The question isn't just efficacy of the technology. It's implementation. Execution. Maintenance. Long term sustainability.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thorium Salt Reactors eat waste uranium and are capable of creating more uranium form thorium for legacy reactors in a continuous cycle.

implementation. Execution. Maintenance. Long term sustainability.

Fossil Fuel fired power plants?

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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of people fall off roofs during solar installation. But that's not an externality -- these people know the risks, they can ask for higher pay, or choose to wear their PPE properly. The deaths from fossil fuels are mostly externalities.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Of course it's an externality! They for sure ain't installing those panels on the inside of the house. Then it would be an internality. Heh.

(sorry, couldn't resist. /s obviously)

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was nearly killed by a cow.

Driving along a country road and one jumped the fence and went in front of my car. As i hit it, it rolled up the bonnet, tore the roof off my sedan and missed my head by fuck all.

Every year on June 10th I buy a giant steak to celebrate survival.

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