I've always found it slightly funny that nuclear power is technically just a fancy steam engine.
Almost all power source that generate electricity are fancy steam engines.
Wait, it's all steam engines?
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Never got this meme honestly, I should figure it out sometime π«π§βππ«π§βπ
Hydro, wind, solar, and wave/tide energy capture are not.
The crazy part is photovoltaics are the only power source that doesn't spin something to make electricity. Truly an outlier.
solar
Except the ones that are. (Concentrated solar power)
Hydro is the most fancy steam engine since it waits for the water to recondense to make power.
Condensed steam.
Has anyone tried using cold steam yet?
Photovoltaics have left the chat.
It was a bad call to stop, but now it's an equally or worse call to start again.
Renewables win on essentially every measure and get better every day while nuclear gets worse every day.
how is it getting worse? there are tons of modern fail-safes
It's getting more expensive year over year, while renewables are plummeting in price.
Nuclear gets more expensive. That's worse.
Conveniently leaves the "get the fissile material" and "store the used fissile material" steps out.
Also: build the thing
Also: unbuild the thing
Run low on water, stop reaction. Fission products keep getting hot even though reaction stopped. Not enough water to cool them off. Shit.
Thatβs why you have a closed water system and multiple failsaves.
Unless you want to cyka your last blyat.
What do I need to roll to pass the failsaves?
Thorium Thorium Thorium Thorium Thorium
thankfully modern ones like molten salt reactors have passive safety, where they stop the reaction if overheating occurs.
edit: My mistake, there's no active commercial molten salt reactors.
But nuclear power is very safe nowadays because of the multiple fail-safes, which some can still be passive like emergency cooling.
I much rather get electricity from magic rocks than destroying rain forest in developing countries drilling oil, gas or mining coal.
The biggest risk in nuclear is environmental disasters like in Fukushima's case, which is the last significant nuclear incident in past 13 years
And are those modern molten salt reactors in the room with us now?
Ah yes, the passive safety of the molten salt spontaneously catching on fire when in contact with air and can't be put out with water.
Same applies to geothermal.
lava is really hot
use lava to boil water
use steam to turn a generator
free electricity!
Chat is this legit gameplay or an exploit?
Trolls and exploiters at it again. If god intended for us to make nuclear energy then he would've made it appear in nature. Stupid scientists making stuff from gods creation.
Well do I have news for you
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
Is just trolling.
I love these, there's no way that would ever work
free
The only completed attempt in last 25 years in US (Vogtle), cost over $15/watt. Before fuel, operations, security, waste disposal plan, and no insurance.
Turnkey (containers full of batteries) systems in China are under $100/kwh. A possible imported cost of $100/kwh.
5gw of solar and 19gwh batteries would have higher capacity factor than nuclear, use same transmission infrastructure size, and cost $7/watt. Where winter production is not enough to fill batteries, the batteries can still be charged by wind or peaker plants that can run a bit more efficiently for a continuous time over a day instead of in bursts.
TBF 90% of the cost of nuclear in the US is political resistance. Not engry meeting
EZ It's not rocket science
i'm willing to have fizzle reactors on the moon. and mars. but i am not willing to shoot the fizzle materials via rockets to the moon or mars because of rockets tendency to blow up when designed and built by the humans.
i want no earth fizzle.
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