It's true solar power isnt very reliable nor as efficient as nuclear power japan is a rarity nor was is properly maintained and dont get me started on the Russians.
Wtf i thought you were on my side whatever they said that it was mostly caused by failure to recognize the situation from the people in charge and failure to follow safety protocols.
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No I was just asking because I was unfamiliar with it
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The problem I have with nuclear power is that, though it very rarely goes wrong, when it does go wrong it goes very very wrong. And people will always fuck up one way or another, so future disasters are almost guaranteed
My problem with nuclear power is that we will run our of uranium some day, which is the fuel, and that the residues are incredibly dangerous, sending out radioactive rays. Even if we are quite good at handling it carefully all we can really do is to put it in this chamber deep down in the ground and leave it there. The natural decay of these substances takes about 500-100000 years. With the rate that we use nuclear power we will one day have no usable uranium and LOADS of chambers packed to the brim with essentially garbage.
So nuclear power isn't a very reliable long term solution. (Godamn school forcing me into writing a goddamn essay with the goddamn pros and cons)
thorium salt reactors can't meltdown and use 99% of the uranium in the fuel rods unlike standard nuclear reactors that use like 10%.
Interestingly enough, the most dangerous form of energy generation by deaths/KwH is actually hydro-electric. When a dam fails it can get brutal.... there was one that failed in China and killed 190,000+ people and displaced multiple millions.
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They need to build all dams like the Hoover dam. I bet that thing could survive centuries without maintenance.
Ah, thank you. I'll work a bit more on my writing skills then.
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I would like to point out that Germany is the size of Utah... It's not as feasible for the USA as it is for smaller countries.
That said, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing more than we are. We seriously need to stop focusing on coal so much. It's dying and we should give it a DNR order.
The ancient power grid works in our favor. Chuck Schumer wants to update the controls systems and link them all. As we stand our controls are so archaic and so spread out that an e-terrorist could not shut down "the grid" remotely and a single emp also could not take it down. They should not be linked and controls should all be air gapped for security.
Do you idiots that whine about alternative energy every go outside? Solar panels are freaking everywhere. I live in a town that's not any state maps and most of my neighbors have solar panels on their houses. Both the high school and grade school have solar panels on the parking lot covers. There's two huge solar farms between my town and the town twenty miles north. It's happening despite what anyone says or thinks. If you would stop sniveling for a few minutes and look around you, you'd see it.
Historically nuclear power is the least fatal of all viable power sources. The small amount of nuclear disasters are nothing in comparison to the disasters associated with hydroelectric power and coal. The United States with respects to infrastructure is far from similar to European nations. For example, the state of Texas far exceeds the square mileage of several European nations combined; thus, power sources such as solar and wind energy have very limited distribution potential as they are environmentally local power structures. On the other hand, nuclear plants can be constructed seemingly anywhere. There are some exiting new developments in the field of nuclear fusion for power though, but they have little industry viability at the moment. In addition, solar panels themselves require extensive maintenance; they bake in the sun all day, everyday. The issue of hazardous nuclear waste can be minimized using techniques that use the waste products to generate power as well.
So nuclear power isn't a very reliable long term solution. (Godamn school forcing me into writing a goddamn essay with the goddamn pros and cons)
Interestingly enough, the most dangerous form of energy generation by deaths/KwH is actually hydro-electric. When a dam fails it can get brutal.... there was one that failed in China and killed 190,000+ people and displaced multiple millions.
That said, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing more than we are. We seriously need to stop focusing on coal so much. It's dying and we should give it a DNR order.