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fungussa t1_iw785h0 wrote

Reply to comment by BrokeVic in Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Accessible to People with Lower Incomes, But Not Fast Enough - Inside Climate News by darth_nadoma

Do you realise that if we don't get off fossil fuels, the the planet will be increasingly inhospitable for humans?

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BrokeVic t1_iwdacvp wrote

Oh yeah I realize that. Anyone in the world would be crazy not to. And I don't disagree with that at all. In my opinion hydrogen and which sounds bad nuclear power which is what stars are made of is what we need. We don't need something that is going to make it worse faster than the fossil fuels we use now. And that's what that is doing.

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fungussa t1_iwds45k wrote

Nuclear is necessary but wholly insufficient, as nuclear:

  • has very long commissioning time

  • more expensive than renewables and the costs are divergent. Solar is halving in cost every 5 years.

  • proliferation risks

  • spent fuel containment

  • very poor horizontal scalability

  • it's carbon footprint is no better than wind and only fractionally better than solar

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