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re: Elon Musk Calls for increased oil and gas production.... and more nuclear energy
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:16 am to hubertcumberdale
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:16 am to hubertcumberdale
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Three Mile Island (1979)
The safety measures worked here. TMI is still operating without issue.
Fukushima was a design flaw that was exposed during a catastrophic natural disaster.
Chernobyl was a Soviet owned, communist run piece of shite.
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Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:22 am to hubertcumberdale
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Well since Nuclear energy was first introduced in 1954 you have incidents like:
Three Mile Island (1979)
Chernobyl (1986)
Fukishima (2011)
They dont happen often, but when they do, it gets pretty messy.
Will another incident ever happen again?
Tell me you don't know anything about nuclear power without telling me you don't know anything about nuclear power.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:23 am to Tiger985
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Tell me you don't know anything about nuclear power without telling me you don't know anything about nuclear power.
I dont know anything about nuclear power? Where did i claim to?
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:25 am to frequent flyer
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Chernobyl was a Soviet owned, communist run piece of shite.
I started a new book last night and the first chapter is all about the Russian ‘yes man’ culture and beuracracy (I can’t spell it and spell check is it helping me,)
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:42 am to thelawnwranglers
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Why is nuclear energy shite on
Your average person probably drives by a nuclear generation plant, sees the steam leaving the cooling tower, and probably thinks its emitting radiation.
In other words, people are fricking stupid.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:43 am to thelawnwranglers
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Why is nuclear energy shite on
Because it's clean and effective. And energy independence will enable less reliance on trade partners.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:46 am to dewster
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Because it's clean and effective. And energy independence will enable less reliance on trade partners.
Is that the end game? To do away with generation, and to run transmission lines into the US from other countries? Holy shite, if so.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 7:54 am to Arkapigdiesel
Nuclear energy is maybe our only viable option for relatively cheap sustainable energy with our tech at this time outside of O&G.
It’s an absolute shame we don’t have nuclear all over the country. We could use these and supplement with existing natural gas cogen plants when needed.
Also a large issue nobody likes to discuss is our electrical grid is woefully outdated. If only the trillions that were printed could actually go to sprucing up the grid and building new nuke plants to power homes, we would atleast see a benefit for this inflation. But we live in a clown world and normal is too much to expect.
It’s an absolute shame we don’t have nuclear all over the country. We could use these and supplement with existing natural gas cogen plants when needed.
Also a large issue nobody likes to discuss is our electrical grid is woefully outdated. If only the trillions that were printed could actually go to sprucing up the grid and building new nuke plants to power homes, we would atleast see a benefit for this inflation. But we live in a clown world and normal is too much to expect.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:00 am to Yaboylsu63
Elon needs oil and gas production for SpaceX. He’s not sending multiple rockets per week into space on electric or solar power
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:05 am to Yaboylsu63
Sierra frick heads like to shite on coal, but a coal powered power plant with a scrubber is very viable and is a clean option. Problem is, most older coal plants won't take on the expense of adding a scrubber, so they just retire the plants.
When many of the coal plants retire here in the next 10-15 years, I foresee many brown outs. Solar and wind turbines are a joke when it comes to consistency and reliability to power the grid.
There's 10's of thousands of megawatts that are going to disappear as a source. What is the plan to replace those coal plants. I've seen no plans or that many new plants erected to replace what we are going to lose.
It really is laughable at the billions of dollars thrown at wind and solar.
When many of the coal plants retire here in the next 10-15 years, I foresee many brown outs. Solar and wind turbines are a joke when it comes to consistency and reliability to power the grid.
There's 10's of thousands of megawatts that are going to disappear as a source. What is the plan to replace those coal plants. I've seen no plans or that many new plants erected to replace what we are going to lose.
It really is laughable at the billions of dollars thrown at wind and solar.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:14 am to LSUray
Anyone against more nuclear is dumb.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:30 am to NYNolaguy1
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Fify. Also a ton of research going into this right now.
Yeah, I recall writing a paper on that in my technical writing class for my final presentation. Break even on one of the reactors was projected for 7 years down the road. Tons of money poured into research. New technologies, promising progress toward solving cold fusion. That was in 1987.
Fusion is the future we want, we just seem to be going in circles at times.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:38 am to goofball
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This post was edited on 8/22/22 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:41 am to thelawnwranglers
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Why is nuclear energy shite on
Because of cost overruns leading to exorbitant initial investments to get new plants built.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:46 am to member12
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Weatherford
Waterford
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:47 am to hubertcumberdale
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Well since Nuclear energy was first introduced in 1954 you have incidents like:
Three Mile Island (1979)
Chernobyl (1986)
Fukishima (2011)
They dont happen often, but when they do, it gets pretty messy.
Will another incident ever happen again?
I can tell you haven't read up on this topic. Nuclear technology is way ahead of that list. Fukishima was seriously old shite
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:48 am to Yaboylsu63
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Nuclear energy is maybe our only viable option for relatively cheap sustainable energy with our tech at this time outside of O&G.
Nuclear is not cheap, relative or otherwise, but hopefully costs will come under control soon.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 9:04 am to jmarto1
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I can tell you haven't read up on this topic. Nuclear technology is way ahead of that list. Fukishima was seriously old shite
I know as much as the average person, just pointing out these incidents and the fact they do happen periodically and will likely happen again in the future. The benefit of providing the energy probably outweighs the environmental risks, but they cant be ignored.
This post was edited on 3/8/22 at 9:08 am
Posted on 3/8/22 at 9:12 am to hubertcumberdale
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I know as much as the average person, just pointing out these incidents and the fact they do happen periodically and will likely happen again in the future. The benefit of providing the energy probably outweighs the environmental risks, but they cant be ignored.
I would disagree with that. It is the cheapest, safest, and most abundant energy available. Do take the time to read up on where we are at. It opened my eyes. My mind was blown at how little nuclear waste we actually have. Yucca mountain was a big deal when I was livining in Vegas. Come to find out that all of our nuclear waste wouldn't even need an Amazon facility as far as size goes
Posted on 3/8/22 at 9:32 am to jmarto1
We have the highest prison population on the planet.
Can't we just put them to work on exer-cycles with little generators?
Their sentences become gigawatts instead of years.
For your crimes, you are hereby sentenced to generating 1.21 gigawatts in the federal energy penitentiary
Can't we just put them to work on exer-cycles with little generators?
Their sentences become gigawatts instead of years.
For your crimes, you are hereby sentenced to generating 1.21 gigawatts in the federal energy penitentiary
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