Plaintext should never be used in any application that deals with security, ever.

Lol you mean the corporate owned farmers who milk subsidies and your taxes while trying to convince you they’re just small blue collar workers? Fuck farmers.

Based on Trumps defenders, it’s a legal gray area, so yes.

I feel it. I forgot what it was like. I feel… The Bern.

Aggressively.

If you use the metric of LCOE, sure, throwing a bunch of cheap solar panels all over the place can just barely be cheaper than the cost to produce them. However, the article even admits this doesn’t include the nessesary use of batteries for renewables, assumes battery technologies will get cheaper and better, while disregarding alternatives. I have to still stress that even if I concede the point they’re almost the same where solar just barely wins, the waste is nowhere near the same. The need for batteries is nowhere near the same. These are hurdles solar still faces that nuclear doesn’t need to solve.

Photovolatic panels still generate thousands of times more waste than anything I’ve seen from nuclear and we don’t have cheap enough batteries to be able to make arrays to support entire cities the way a nuclear plant can and does.

I get why renewables are attractive but I still don’t see the downside to nuclear. The only valid point I’ve been given is “time to build” which yes, we should have started thirty years ago. Why not right now?

The cost and waste per GW/H of power is also staggeringly different. Even if we took spent reactor parts into account for waste and calculated the cost, would it fall short for solar or wind? I haven’t seen any data that would suggest renewables could compete with nuclear in terms of power generation per waste or cost, let alone beat it, but I’m willing to examine anything you put forth.

In fact, I’ve only ever seen the opposite. That nuclear has a superior ratio in nearly every metric and that’s not considering where fusion could end up taking us.

Handwaving the topic at hand to focus on tone policing. Typical.

390,000 metric tons since nuclear was started. In 1954. It wouldn’t even register a .5 on this chart.

It’s fucking insulting you know so little about what I’m talking about yet still disregard it. I shouldn’t need to hunt down something that should be readily apparent yet here I am.

$10 DLC.

It wouldn’t show up because nuclear waste is beyond miniscule and nearly every atom is accounted for. No other industry can claim that.

I love this graph because what it illustrates is that instead of going with the option that has virtually no waste, nuclear, everyone is fine with ramping up one that still is making a rather concerning amount of waste.

Celebrating taking the second best option seems really dumb when the even better one is right there.

The electronic waste crated by photovolatic cells harms nature. It’s not just a problem, it’s approaching the waste created by vapes. It’s not possible. I am yet again harping in about nuclear being the option.

My immediate thought was wondering how they’d forge metal for a drill while underwater

Someone should tell them the ones who didn’t do this fucking died.

4th times the charm.

Sorry officer, all I have in my wallet are memes.

I read leaf Hitler so we’re all thinking different things.

Looks like the bottom of my bowl after eating cinnamon toast crunch.

No you’re right, we should take the side of the government who actively performs military drills off the coast of a mostly defenseless island of people to subjegate them. The side of a country who has countless times shown us they not only don’t respect our way of living but actively support our enemies like Russia. The side of a country that if given the option would propagandize us the same way they do their citizens. Heard of Tiananmen square?

I’d rather be exploited by billionaires for my work than lied to, manipulated by, exploited by, then murdered by my government in the streets.