sunkenvicar

Hopefully before China eats our lunch.

He’s downvoted because he’s bringing on-the-ground facts to a political discussion about solar and wind.

Seems like nuclear heat and electricity can substitute for hydrocarbons. Abundant heat and power within the atom to compensate for lower efficiency.

I am concerned now because covering the world in solar panels and wind turbines is unsustainable. Each siting location by definition is worse than the one before. The vast land area required will cause tremendous societal and environmental impact. Problems of energy storage, rotating mass, and baseload power remain unsolved by wind and solar.

We need to get on nuclear. Then we can help poorer nations with nuclear power so they can undergo their own Clean Industrial Revolutions. In 80 years we all want the world’s ~11 billion plus people to live far better than we live in the West today.

I’m referring to energy density. Because civilization requires ever-increasing amounts of energy to grow and prosper.

Solar, even concentrated desert solar, is no good at all. Wind is a distant derivative and much, much worse.

Hydrocarbons and nuclear are the fuels of today and tomorrow because they are orders of magnitude more energy dense. These energy sources are so dense they double as energy storage.

Wind is a second-order force. It’s even worse than solar - hard to believe!

Climate change is already solved with nuclear power. You just don’t know it yet.

This is what I meant.

Unreadable on mobile.

He’s the most efficient tourist I’ve come across.

He shows wind energy has horrifically low energy density. He also shows the immense infrastructure required for one wind turbine.

A comparison with nuclear is left as an exercise for the viewer. Perhaps it is made explicit in the full video.

Why build Gen 3 plants when they are on the cusp of commercializing Gen 4?

Industry, the backbone of modern civilization, requires cheap unlimited power 24/7. Renewables in Europe are killing growth and driving jobs overseas.

Everyone can drive an electric car with the Green Nuclear Deal.

Scott Adams’ law of slow-moving disasters continues to predict the future.

Nuclear is needed to generate the energy stored by Hydrogen.

Fake solutions for an imagined problem. The unused uranium from a reactor fits neatly into a few parking stalls. Security, transport, and storage of this valuable resource are already solved. Let’s put this material to use!

An invasive species under attack by human “urbanization”. Sounds good to me.

This story omits the most important information. What happens to plant and animal life if we raise the river temperature? And what happens if we instead burn more coal in Germany to compensate?

A valid explanation of the trade-offs between safety and usability. But it seems like HN doesn’t like guns or gun analogies. Too bad.

I am surprised at the skepticism in this thread from tech people. Dozens of startups recognize the limitless opportunity and inevitability of nuclear power.

We’ve already seen two successful Green New Deals - France in the ‘70s and Sweden in the ‘80s. Both deals were built on a backbone of nuclear power.

We all want clean, limitless energy to grow the economy and protect our environment. If California and Germany had spent $680 BILLION on nuclear instead of “renewables”, they’d already be living in the future.

I skimmed the article and didn’t see a single mention of nuclear.

The article can be safely ignored - nuclear is the only feasible solution regardless of your position on global warming.

So much waste. We’ve built a mountain of bullshit while the world burns.

California and Germany spent 680 BILLION dollars on renewables. If they’d spent that much on nuclear power instead, they’d have unlimited carbon-free green energy TODAY.

This is better than nuclear? How?

Thorium (U-233) is one way to solve the proliferation risk.

Nuclear could really clean up the shipping industry and provide numerous other benefits.

Haha. I must have been hallucinating.

iOS 13 supports the 6s and the SE.

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

Wow. This thread is full of anti-nuclear fudd. An amazingly powerful two sentence Bloomberg blurb!

Generation 3 nuclear is on the way, with bipartisan support. Dozens of startups are working on generation 4 and on nuclear fusion. Is ycombinator involved in any?

No one reads the fine print.