Carbon is killing almost a million and a half people a year, plus screwing the atmosphere.
We've put ten times the money it would take to solve this on nuclear into solar, and unless you incorrectly use nameplate capacity, it hasn't even broken the 2% mark yet, but it's already throwing the grid into chaos.
Worldwide, in all of history, nuclear power has killed fewer than 200 people. Yes, I know HBO told you it was more. HBO is lying for profits. The UN says it's 156.
There is no safer technology in history, of any kind, than nuclear power.
Nuclear has already fixed 1/4 of the problem. It can fix the rest in time. Nothing else can.
You have six years left to wake up before it's too late to vote for the fix we already have.
> We've put ten times the money it would take to solve this on nuclear into solar,
Could you share the numbers for how much subsidy money was put into solar technology, and how much for nuclear energy (and fossil fuels, for that matter) over their history?
> and unless you incorrectly use nameplate capacity, it hasn't even broken the 2% mark yet,
The number I'm seeing[0] for solar, globally (based on 2019 data), is 2.7%, which, combined with wind, wave, and tidal etc. comes to 10.5%, compared to 10.4% for nuclear. Both are dwarfed by hydropower's 15.8%, of course, but it's hard to manufacture the right sort of rivers.
> but it's already throwing the grid into chaos.
That hasn't been the experience in Australia[1], so it sounds like you're referring to a politics problem, not a technology problem.
No thanks, you're doing a fine job finding wrong numbers by not knowing the difference between nameplate and delivered already.
> The number I'm seeing[0]
is irrelevant, as it's about how much power the solar panels could produce, if the planet had noon 24 hours a day and the panels were forever perfectly aligned.
Energiewende is unambiguous.
> which, combined with wind, wave, and tidal etc. comes to 10.5%,
When you learn what to look for, it's under 1%.
No, I don't have to teach you this in order to speak where you are also present.
No, googling things without foundational knowledge isn't a valid push back. This is energy anti-vaxing.
> That hasn't been the experience in Australia
Gee, who'd have thought that Australia, whose solar panel industry barely exists and which is entirely fuelled by coal and LNG, which can ramp up and down, would not yet be facing this?
If only there was a valid piece of history to meausure, which left an entire country dumping power at negative prices for more than a month in the desperation to not blow their grid
If only that country was radically more industrialized than Australia
If only you knew enough about power history to not need to ask me who I mean
If only you'd look at that eleven years and figure out what it meant
"Zero people died from the plant."
Have you ever searched for czernobyl victims?
I advice it, but only if you have strong nerves.
Especially those poor kids...
It's really easier to get rid of carbon than get rid of atomic waste.
And i don't defend carbon, im for wind and solar as safer than two mentioned above.
And you dont count deformations that came after. There's lots of it if you search for them. Carbon damage doesnt come close and you can get a nice filter. There's really no escape from radiation unless you shelter yourself with enough of lead and rocks. Maybe go live underground cause your standard carbon filter wont work on atomic fallout.
Carbon is killing almost a million and a half people a year, plus screwing the atmosphere.
We've put ten times the money it would take to solve this on nuclear into solar, and unless you incorrectly use nameplate capacity, it hasn't even broken the 2% mark yet, but it's already throwing the grid into chaos.
Worldwide, in all of history, nuclear power has killed fewer than 200 people. Yes, I know HBO told you it was more. HBO is lying for profits. The UN says it's 156.
There is no safer technology in history, of any kind, than nuclear power.
Nuclear has already fixed 1/4 of the problem. It can fix the rest in time. Nothing else can.
You have six years left to wake up before it's too late to vote for the fix we already have.