• NONE@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Well, you see, the “Anti Magic Rock” Lobby has immense amount of power because of the money of the still lucrative “burning stuff and pollute everything” business.

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      2 hours ago

      Nuclear isn’t in competition with fossil fuels, it’s in competition with renewables. Renewables are better than nuclear by pretty much every conceivable metric. So fuck nuclear power, it’s a waste of money and time.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Fact: that is a fake statement.

        Nuclear is not renewables competition.

        Nuclear provides a base line energy production.

        Both renewables and fossils produce a variable production line.

        So within a rational production scheme the choice is nuclear+renewables or fossils+renewables. As renewables by themselves cannot work. Because there is months over the year when it’s not sunny, not rainy and not windy enough, what do we do for those months? We close humanity during those months because some political dogma says so?

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        Are you sure renewables don’t require more extracted resources and more land usage per quantity of energy produced?

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        1 hour ago

        I feel like people are interpreting your comment with an American context. As a fellow European I agree, NGOs like Greenpeace are also to blame, and I don’t think those are financed by fossil fuel lobbies.

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        15 hours ago

        Yeah, oil oiled the “green” anti-nuclear protests.

        You can tell that’s how it was because the cops didn’t beat them as much (or in some big cases at all) as they do even the most insignificant anti-oil protesters.