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Comment by saiya-jin | Hacker News Reader

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Try scaling your solution to 8 billions of people... oh you can't. You can't even scale it to Europe level, nor Germany level. Welcome to reality where imperfect solutions are required. Nuclear is much better than coal, which is what Germany runs on now, 'thank you' for polluting half of the world with mildly radioactive waste from burning coal and killing way more people than all nuclear disasters combined.

Its unpopular opinion since its stupid, very narrow, ignore-bigger-picture approach. We can do better than that. Not surprised its coming from Germany, since greens there brainwashed once a great nation into some seriously stupid long term moves (from economical and environmental view) that hurt and will hurt whole Europe for next few decades. I'd say Germany economy is still strong despite government it had/has, not thanks to it.

> Try scaling your solution to 8 billions of people... oh you can't

Yes we can, why do you think we can't?

I like nuclear power, and yes it's much safer than the reputation, but its geopolitical (and local political) issues are killing it.

For scale (while I like the idea it has its own geopolitical issues), a global power grid would involve about as much Aluminium as we produce globally every 3.75 years, costing about as much as just what China alone spends on coal every 12 months.

I never suggested that "my personal solution" is to be applied everywhere. I suggested to work on making renewables more approachable and to reduce the energy consumption where it's feasible.

Not sure why I'm being personally attacked like this.

Well you didn't suggest anything useful to the discussion then, just bragged a bit about your un-scaleable and un-useable personal situation which had a slight condescending aspect.

Absolutely nobody here argues renewables shouldn't be invested in, same for minimizing footprint, that's not even up to discussion. Its like saying in a topic about russian war on Ukraine that people should stop being nasty and be nice to each other, because I am nice to people around me. Feels nice but useless.

This alone doesn't solve anything we discuss today nor tomorrow, nor next year nor next decade. That's when imperfect practical solutions I mentioned need to be used, despite people like you on high horse telling everybody how bad it is and how they use something better.

I hope this explains my reaction enough.

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