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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 years ago by MataVatnik@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)

TBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Some experts would argue it's already starting to be uninhabitable.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think a town burning down would be fatal for most the inhabitants 3000 BC

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Why not build it in a remote location then?

Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don't build dams upstream of a large town.

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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 point 2 years ago

The Chernobyl reactor's explosion had impacts all the way in West Europe.

I don't think you can be remote enough with this.

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