anyway, this is where we can start
1000% correct. Will still needs lots of fossil until we can build out 5-600 reactors over a generation.
Wow you are so wrong here about nearly everything.max225 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:47 am I think we had a thread somewhere. I know that those who hump the leg hard talk about how it is a “0 emission” process. And now “safe” it is… yet we’ve had countless disasters that have made many areas of the world inhospitable…
On top of that storing discarded fission materials for eternity is a huge burden on future generations as well.
There is no such thing as a free lunch Imo. For those in the sun belt solar is a real thing. I generate enough for myself and 2 cars. And with proper battery storage, I.e through an ev battery vs standalone home storage that’s the best way to go …
But yet mining lithium is a huge bitch as well…
Love to see an independent full service life assessment all all energies.
1. countless disasters? there has been 1 bad one. Chernobyl. and its not even that bad anymore outside the immediate area of the plant. Far from 'many' areas that are 'inhospitable'
2. Storage/waste. This is only a thing in the USA because we are stupid. It can be reprocessed, reused, the the really nasty hot shit sored for a few hundred years in much smaller volume than a few 10k years as spent rods. France and most the rest of the world do this on some level. Then you can stuck the depleted elements back in the ground as NORM once they are less hot than ore.
3. also if we went to 3rd or 4th gen designs that move away from light water a lot of these issues go away
4. You are correct about no free lunch. All your tesla, battery storage, and solar panels took huge amounts of energy to manufacture. Do I think this stuff can work well for residential? Sure, it can and does. And its a good solution to boot IMHO.
But you are NOT going to power our modern industrial civilization as it exists today off solar panels and wind farms, the math simply doesn't work. We need lots of nuclear, and fast, if we ever want to become less dependent on carbon based energy.
So do that or drill and dig, I honestly dont care at this point - but what I won't do is go back to living in the 1800's energy wise