Counterpoint: It is
Also, I want my superpowers and I’m not going to get them from freak solar accident, so nuclear is the route to take
Anti-nuclear greens are serving the fossil fuel industry
heres my fake summary:
instead let’s… i dunno, drill a hole to the earths core or mine asteroids for orbital solar panels or other easily attainable, practical solutions we can do in the next 5 years
then we’ll just wait for a bunch of scam startups in the west to magically develop a commercial fusion reactor
A post about the debate between nuclear and green energy and not one idiot in the comments talking about windmills killing birds or claiming solar panels don’t work in winter.
I feel like I’m breathing fresh air for the first time
Solar panels kill birds and windmills don’t work in the winter. If nuclear wasn’t the only truly green energy source, why does it glow that color.?
I believe that’s what they call, in the business, a checkmate.
nuclear is the answer (destruction of the west with nuclear bombs)
Canadian Greens are the absolute most insufferable kind of libs. Their solutions for climate change are basically to replace fossil fuels with [Future Technology 18] like they’re playing Civilization 2 with cheats turned on.
I don’t have a problem with nuclear power technology, but y’all are familiar with the companies running the plants, right?
Very much recommend checking out The Dollop PG&E episodes
Pt 1
Pt 2
I assume we all agree that they should be state-run, and that PG&E will continue to kill people regardless of the types of power generation they use.
based and correct. if you still think there is any technology that is the answer to human civilizations unsustainable ways you are worse than useless.
The opposite of this^
As opposed to the useful demand that entitled, murderous imperialists stop buying trinkets and treats and help developing countries?
Yeah exactly 👍
Most people support nuclear but I’m 100% behind this book and it’s thesis. Done a lot of research, and I wish information about this topic was more widespread.
Huh?
Ralph Nader
Ok, good bit.
THE CLIMATE CRISIS has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs perfection and deployment. Nuclear Is Not the Solution demonstrates why this sort of thinking is not only naïve but dangerous.
Even beyond the horrific implications of meltdown and the intractable problem of waste disposal, nuclear is not practicable on such a large scale. Any appraisal of future energy technology depends on two important parameters: cost and time. Nuclear fails on both counts. It is more costly than its renewable competitors wind and solar. And, importantly given the need for rapid transformation, it is slow. A plant takes a decade to come online. If you include permits and fundraising, this adds another decade. And we should not forget the deep roots it has in the defense industry.
M. V. Ramana’s powerful book destroys any illusion that nuclear is our answer to climage change, untangling technical arguments into simple and sensible language. Importantly, Nuclear Is Not the Solution also unmasks the powerful groups with vested interests in the maintenance of the status quo, currently working hard to greenwash a spectacularly dirty industry.
At least this doesn’t seem as stupid as the German green plan of just shutting down nuclear plants before there is a renewable source to replace it. I would rather wind and solar are the focus of a transition. (plus a healthy reduction of energy consumption)
It’s exactly that stupid. The British Columbia political class talk a big game about renewable energy, then half-ass it—if they even ass it at all. But strangely, there wasn’t any red tape to stop ramping up natural gas exports.
Oh wait, is this actually written by a Canadian Green? If that’s the perspective then yeah this is toilet paper lol
The recent war in Ukraine made me a lot more cautious of nuclear because if there’s a belligerent who’s willing to cross the Rubicon by bombing nuclear plants (ie the US), then all the statistics about nuclear plants being safe goes out the window. There’s also speculation that if Israel nukes Tehran, Iran will launch hypersonic cruise missiles targeting Israeli nuclear plants and Chernobyl Israel since their main nuclear plant is located at the very center of Israel on top of other nuclear plants that are located close to urban centers.
Of course, it’s not like bombing coal plants will have zero environmental impact and I would imagine blowing up dams will overall do far more environmental damage and kill far more people.
The relevant questions are:
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What are the environmental impacts and human costs of a nuclear plant being bombed and destroyed by a belligerent military?
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What safeguards can be placed to thwart or mitigate military attacks targeting nuclear plants?
if i didn’t want iran to bomb my nuclear power plants i would simply not bait them into conflict when committing genocide
Death to America
Taking a look at Chernobyl today, the environmental impacts of a melted down or destroyed nuclear reactor are way less destructive (maybe not destructive at all, except to human life within close proximity of the reactor) than the costs of avoiding nuclear in fear of these hypothetical possibilities
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Hey everyone let’s quite literally judge this book by its cover
I like the shade of yellow in the text
I don’t know about everybody else, but I’m judging it based on the author being a Canadian turbolib who’s still really scared of getting nuked by the USSR.
let’s quite literally judge this book by its cover
The title on the cover is pretty blatant about what the thesis of the book is.
I think the layout is boring and makes it look like a textbook.
