sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comsv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months ago Nuclear power is the ONLY form of clean energy that can be scaled up in time to save us from the worst of climate change. Long term nuclear is great… But building new plants uses a shit ton of concrete. So we’re paying the carbon cost up front, and it can take years or even decades to break even. So we can’t just spam build nuke plants right now to fix everything. 30 years ago that would have worked.
minus-squareWooki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months ago8 years to build, not 30. Instead we are building many many more coal and gas plants. What a terrific alternative. Fallacy of renewables without storage is done. It’s never going to happen.
Long term nuclear is great…
But building new plants uses a shit ton of concrete. So we’re paying the carbon cost up front, and it can take years or even decades to break even.
So we can’t just spam build nuke plants right now to fix everything.
30 years ago that would have worked.
8 years to build, not 30. Instead we are building many many more coal and gas plants. What a terrific alternative. Fallacy of renewables without storage is done. It’s never going to happen.