• NONE@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Well, you see, the “Anti Magic Rock” Lobby has immense amount of power because of the money of the still lucrative “burning stuff and pollute everything” business.

    • drake@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      Nuclear isn’t in competition with fossil fuels, it’s in competition with renewables. Renewables are better than nuclear by pretty much every conceivable metric. So fuck nuclear power, it’s a waste of money and time.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        2 months ago

        Are you sure renewables don’t require more extracted resources and more land usage per quantity of energy produced?

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Fact: that is a fake statement.

        Nuclear is not renewables competition.

        Nuclear provides a base line energy production.

        Both renewables and fossils produce a variable production line.

        So within a rational production scheme the choice is nuclear+renewables or fossils+renewables. As renewables by themselves cannot work. Because there is months over the year when it’s not sunny, not rainy and not windy enough, what do we do for those months? We close humanity during those months because some political dogma says so?

      • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        Storage is a solvable problem. Whereas we don’t have the resources to power the world with nuclear plants.

        • iii@mander.xyz
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          2 months ago

          Storage is a solvable problem

          I’m not convinced it is. Storage technologies exist for sure, but the general public seems to grossly underestimate the scale of storage required to match grid demand and renewables only production.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Burning down your house doesn’t poison people thousands of years later, so it’s not a perfect analogy.

    Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

      Yet we decided to release way more poison and even way more radiation by mining and burning fossil fuels. We just poison larger areas than any nuclear disasters. And with fossil fuels people actually get cancer, and with toxic byproducts, mutations and birth defects.

      People in polluted areas die sooner. Except around nuclear disasters sights - the air gets cleaner once all the people are thrown out.