I broadly agree with Zack Polanski here. I’m glad he’s taken a stance.
I’m not sure about “no state has the right to exist”, but whatever.
I broadly agree with Zack Polanski here. I’m glad he’s taken a stance.
I’m not sure about “no state has the right to exist”, but whatever.
It’s not about what can’t be powered by renewables it’s that everything can’t be powered by renewables all of the time.
The big advantage of nuclear power is that it works 24/7, it doesn’t produce pollution, it’s wasted by product is something that can be dealt with and doesn’t have any environmental impacts, and it’s well understood technology that has worked for nearly 100 years now and we’ll still be reliable into the future. It gives us a nice stable based work from.
People are so scared of nuclear power because they don’t understand it, and so the Greens have taken the stands that there against it too. Not only does that risk our energy security but it’s pandering to ignorance something no party should be doing let of all the greens that are supposed to be progressive.
Batteries have sorted that. We just haven’t installed enough yet. The combination of renewables and batteries is better than nuclear by every metric.
Uranium has better energy density than any battery.
Germany would like a word about that. We do not know how to deal with the waste, we don’t even know how to properly store it until we figure out what to do with it.
Also: obviously mining uranium comes with a lot of pollution with massive environmental impact.
Hey he said no the glowing stuff is safe
That’s fair enough, my only reservation with nuclear is how much runway it needs for rollout, I know some firms have wanted to standardise with a basic unit of nuclear power sort of thing, but that’s also taking a long time. I’ve also seen promising work done in cheap grid storage, so for my money that’s going to be a better “decarbonise immediately, if not sooner” solution.
But nuclear is fine too imo, long-term. Didn’t the greens evolve slightly on that too? I think I heard they’re just going to treat it as another option to weigh on the merits, which is probably their way of saying “we’re not NIMBYs, but it doesn’t beat wind and solar”.