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hunter

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24. Nuclear power technology is seventy years old, so it's not "someday..."

Reply to Gore1FL (Reply #23)

Wed Sep 29, 2021, 11:56 AM

Sep 2021

...unlike the impossible batteries and other such technologies renewable energy enthusiasts pin their hopes on.

If solar panels were free, if you could grow them in your backyard like zucchini, they still wouldn't displace fossil fuels.

The environmental impacts of geothermal energy are not negligible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy#Environmental_effects

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If God Intended Humans Were To Have Free Energy For Billions Of Years [View all] DanieRains Sep 2021 OP

There's a lot more than two of them out there..... RockRaven Sep 2021 #1

Too bad the sun doesn't shine all the time... hunter Sep 2021 #2

Thorium fission reactors and later, fusion reactors. Klaralven Sep 2021 #4

I don't quite understand the fascination with thorium reactors... hunter Sep 2021 #7

Because there's no such thing as energy storage? lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #10

Not all solar is intermittent. Mosby Sep 2021 #5

Battery and thermal storage is measured in minutes. At most hours. hunter Sep 2021 #8

There are numerous storage schemes in the works. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #12

I haven't been able to make that math work... hunter Sep 2021 #17

Last I checked... Miguelito Loveless Sep 2021 #6

Pretty sure that's true. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #11

You mean the sun isnt made to rise from the depths by the sky gods with their flaming chariots? Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #16

Blasphemy and heresy are my specialty Miguelito Loveless Sep 2021 #18

Beauty!!! (nt) ProfessorGAC Sep 2021 #20

Have you ever been with your mom when she's removed from a church for her heresies? hunter Sep 2021 #21

I was explaining the Star Wars premise yesterday.. carpetbagger Sep 2021 #3

That's my nightmare vision with nuclear power, either fusion or fission... hunter Sep 2021 #9

No, God would have given us the ability to use nuclear energy here on earth. former9thward Sep 2021 #13

Waste storage costs do it for me., Gore1FL Sep 2021 #14

Technology is not static. former9thward Sep 2021 #15

Assuming we come up with a something cheaper than burying it and guarding it, sure. Gore1FL Sep 2021 #19

Meanwhile we ignore all that shit with a half life of fucking forever. hunter Sep 2021 #22

Greenhouse gasses have been largely ignored as weapons, so there is that. Gore1FL Sep 2021 #23

Nuclear power technology is seventy years old, so it's not "someday..." hunter Sep 2021 #24

I haven't heard of "impossible batteries." Are they like nuclear reactors that run on unobtainium? Gore1FL Sep 2021 #25

I'd rather not eat grass. hunter Sep 2021 #26

Fossil fuels certainly have their short comings. Gore1FL Sep 2021 #27