IMHO I do not think nuclear will save us from climate change - it takes too long to get going to be effective - but this is going to really agitate some chud/nerd brains worms
it takes too long to get going to be effective
20 Years from now is exactly when we’ll need those reactors the most. We should be building more of them right fucking now. The energy crisis is only going to worsen in the future, all the more reason to put into place the very good carbon neutral tech we have now instead of hoping for a hypothetical fast solution to implement someday.
very good carbon neutral tech we have now
:shrug-outta-hecks:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-percentage-change-nuclear
It’s down because of regulation and bunch of Boomers who are still anti-nuclear.
France went from almost all fossils to about 75% nuke from 1975 to 2000 to the point that they power a lot of Europe now when the wind stops blowing. The US similarly built almost all of its nuclear capacity in the span of 25 or so years.
The reason it ranks fifth is because there’s so few of them to begin with, not because of inefficiency.
geez - didn’t mean to start a nuclear energy struggle session here
the simple reality is that nuclear could have been a useful stop gap if we had taken climate change seriously in the 70s-80s
that didn’t happen, so we really can’t avoid climate change at this point, only tamp down the bounds of how much it happens
there’s going to be loads of climate disasters for the foreseeable future, and developing nuclear energy in that context (even if somehow we could ramp it via ‘deregulation’ 🙄 ) is asking for even more cataclysmic consequences during these events
other renewables don’t really have this built-in risk factor and are actually quite resilient due to being more decentralized
China, the bleeding edge of nuclear energy research based on this news, has more Wind power than nuclear. Wind and Solar are growing y-o-y at 15%+ while nuclear only 5% … in China.
So if China can figure it out safely and effectively … sure that’s awesome, but we have to be serious about where we are today.
https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2020-electricity-other-energy-statistics-preliminary/
