Nuclear power could make a bit of a comeback Japan is restarting nuclear units and building more wind & solar, raising zero CO2 generation to 59%! Hooray! Japan, world's 4th largest GDP, is slashing gas, coal & oil burned to generate electricity. Fossil fuels fall from 69% in 2022 to 41% in 2030.Japan is restarting nuclear units and building more wind & solar, raising zero CO2 generation to 59%!https://t.co/IoTxdRylRF pic.twitter.com/jegA7Flp52— John Raymond Hanger (@johnrhanger) May 2, 2024 Italy's current administration has decided that its nuclear industry should be restarted, and will try to get the associated legislation passed! Italy's current administration has decided that its nuclear industry should be restarted, and will try to get the associated legislation passed! Climate and energy security were cited as reasons. Article link in reply.After a referendum in 1987, after the Chernobyl accident,… pic.twitter.com/KM26gNHYwT— James Hopf (@HopfJames) May 2, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair Don't worry, be happy and keep cranking out those babies!
We always lived in an age of fools. The only difference with today is that these fools gather and confirm and empower each other by means of social media. Before that you could spout nonsense in a pub and get punched in the face, or you had to write a letter to the editor of a paper, who tossed it in the bin. It's like New Orleans and Katrina. No levies and the shit comes pouring in.
Sure, but we have very serious and respected leaders across all facets of civilization acting like damn fools on this issue for 30+ years.
So in one hand you tell people to drive electric cars to "save the planet" but in the other hand you are a protectionist that wants to save the jobs in American companies that have dragged their feet and lobbied to water down any climate change regulation. So who do you side with? The fight against global warming or the American corporations? US set to impose 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles https://t.co/OT2PrvZcEk via @ft— Demetri (@Dimi) May 10, 2024 https://www.ft.com/content/9b79b340-50e0-4813-8ed2-42a30e544e58 More charts on this... US EV imports are up a lot in recent years, but they're not coming from China. Within the US market, Tesla continues to lead EV sales by a wide margin. Chinese brands barely exist. https://t.co/oEB6YSOnYa pic.twitter.com/5O5l09wASX— Gerard DiPippo (@gdp1985) May 11, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251769080/florida-desantis-climate-change-law Yes ... Ha Ha Ha ... Yes!
Meanwhile, fire season here in Canada has kicked off. And it's only mid May. Joy. 15 years ago, what we see today for activity, wouldn't hit us until mid summer.
Have you tried raking the forest ground more often? A certain presidential candidate thinks it will help.
Ah ha! Why didn't I think of that? Like we used to do 100 years ago when we had thousands and thousands of people living deep inside our forests and grasslands.
That chart is a bit misleading. Because Tesla (white) is falling it makes the other manufacturers' sales looks like they're falling. But it looks like Hyundai (yellow) is the only other one that's actually falling. Tesla still dominates.
A little known tribe of indigenous Canadians, similar to hunters and gatherers. They were the sweepers and rakers.
Nukes are not renewable. Clean, as in emissions free, yes. But what about the waste? We're just gonna bury a bunch of stuff underground, or store it in tanks? It's a transition resource. I would argue that non-gaseous biomass resources are even better if it means getting fossils off the grid. At the same time, we don't want to encourage entities to pollute more so that they can get more money from not taking any additional action than they would have to address the environment. That's the key.
Stupidfaces promoting nuclear energy ignore the fact that while high radio active waste is only about 1% of the total nuclear waste, it however represents 98% of the radioactivity of the total waste!! And on top of that it also takes millions of years to halve it's rate. So burying it in whatever layer means with the plate tectonics this stuff will get to cause damage to life.
Can anyone imagine what happens if our buried high radioactive waste during plate tectonics move into a highly vulcanic spot and that stuff gets spread via the sky world wide by volcanic eruptions? It's like having a Chernobil disaster next door.
Not to mention that the current solution is in one of the least geologically active areas on earth. The hard part isn't the storage. It's how the ***** do you put warning signs up so that future humans don't interact with it.
You bury it a mile underground then you hope the first priority in a post-apocalyptic society isn't "let's dig a big hole in the ground".
Well sure but we all know they'll get to digging big holes eventually. How to stop folk from opening the door?