Another article on Slashdot to express just how doomed we all are because people are burning fossil fuels. I prefer articles telling us how we could solve this problem. It would also be preferable to see some articles recognizing just how far we've come to solve the problem of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, or CAGW.
There's a part of me that doesn't much care about the problem of CAGW because it doesn't matter if CAGW is a problem or not as what needs to be done is not changed by CAGW being a p
You're not going to see another nuclear plant built in your lifetime as the initial cost is too prohibitive. The price of solar is falling incrementally every year so why not take advantage of all that free energy? I'm sure the government could kick some subsidies into nuke plants but wouldn't that be evil socialism?
The price of solar is falling incrementally every year so why not take advantage of all that free energy?
Excellent. Every time I hear someone panicking about climate change I always reassure myself that there's nothing to worry about because every mention of nuclear power on Slashdot is always followed up by posts talking about how cheap solar (and often wind) are. People only pollute because it's cheaper than not polluting. If solar is so cheap that it isn't worth fixing all the political obstructions that have blocked progress on nuclear power plant design for decades then climate change doesn't stand a chance. We wouldn't be able to keep people using fossil fuels even if we wanted to with solar becoming so cheap. I bet with solar so cheap we'll have be using solar to convert atmospheric CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels at industrial scale in just a few years.
Can we have more nuclear power now? Yes, we can. (Score:5, Informative)
Another article on Slashdot to express just how doomed we all are because people are burning fossil fuels. I prefer articles telling us how we could solve this problem. It would also be preferable to see some articles recognizing just how far we've come to solve the problem of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, or CAGW.
There's a part of me that doesn't much care about the problem of CAGW because it doesn't matter if CAGW is a problem or not as what needs to be done is not changed by CAGW being a p
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You're not going to see another nuclear plant built in your lifetime as the initial cost is too prohibitive. The price of solar is falling incrementally every year so why not take advantage of all that free energy? I'm sure the government could kick some subsidies into nuke plants but wouldn't that be evil socialism?
Re:Can we have more nuclear power now? Yes, we can (Score:3)
The price of solar is falling incrementally every year so why not take advantage of all that free energy?
Excellent. Every time I hear someone panicking about climate change I always reassure myself that there's nothing to worry about because every mention of nuclear power on Slashdot is always followed up by posts talking about how cheap solar (and often wind) are. People only pollute because it's cheaper than not polluting. If solar is so cheap that it isn't worth fixing all the political obstructions that have blocked progress on nuclear power plant design for decades then climate change doesn't stand a chance. We wouldn't be able to keep people using fossil fuels even if we wanted to with solar becoming so cheap. I bet with solar so cheap we'll have be using solar to convert atmospheric CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels at industrial scale in just a few years.