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    23 days ago

    I hope you guys are memeing because getting passionately mad over guy branded stuff that we just find kinda neat is a new level of stupid I haven’t been exposed to yet. I want my asshole to smell like mint, so I buy dude wipes. I want canned water to cut down on plastic usage, so I buy liquid death. I want a burger that’s not made of animals so I buy a beyond burger. Beyond what? I don’t fucking know I just want a burger.

    It’s not that deep.





  • If you use the metric of LCOE, sure, throwing a bunch of cheap solar panels all over the place can just barely be cheaper than the cost to produce them. However, the article even admits this doesn’t include the nessesary use of batteries for renewables, assumes battery technologies will get cheaper and better, while disregarding alternatives. I have to still stress that even if I concede the point they’re almost the same where solar just barely wins, the waste is nowhere near the same. The need for batteries is nowhere near the same. These are hurdles solar still faces that nuclear doesn’t need to solve.

    Photovolatic panels still generate thousands of times more waste than anything I’ve seen from nuclear and we don’t have cheap enough batteries to be able to make arrays to support entire cities the way a nuclear plant can and does.

    I get why renewables are attractive but I still don’t see the downside to nuclear. The only valid point I’ve been given is “time to build” which yes, we should have started thirty years ago. Why not right now?