• oyo@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Funny how solar, wind, and batteries are way cheaper and faster to build yet people are still talking about nuclear.

    • CybranM@feddit.nu
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      4 hours ago

      If only people weren’t fearmongering about nuclear 50 years ago we’d have clean energy today.

      “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, second best is now”

      • Hoimo@ani.social
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        1 hour ago

        That saying works for trees. We didn’t make trees obsolete with better technology.

    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      Stopping nuclear from being built is the problem.

      We would have had a lot more clean energy than we do by now if we let the nuclear power plants that “would take too long to build!” be built back then, because they’d be up and running by now.

      More letting perfect be the enemy of good.

      • drake@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 hours ago

        Nuclear may have been good 10 years ago, but it isn’t really good anymore. This is like saying “if I had bought a PS2 in 2002 then I would have had fun playing Final Fantasy XI Online. Therefore, I should buy a PS2 and FFXI Online so I can have fun in 2024”. That ship has sailed