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What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nuclear energy is slow, which is why things like "night storage heating" where invented, which store the unneeded heat generated at night.

We have a constant electricity demand and a varying. Especially if we use "smart" devices (nothing IOT, just washing machines only washing during the day) the constant demand can be decreased a lot.

So as we are awake roughly around the time that we can produce solar energy, and have wind for the constant part, we dont need nuclear power, really.

Also building these plants takes years which we dont have.

And nothing is sustainable if it produces non-disposable nuclear waste that will likely live longer than humanity on this planet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm definitely pro solar, wind, and other renewable sources of energy. I'm just not convinced that nuclear shouldn't be included in a "greenification" of energy sources.

As an aside, I live somewhere where the days are pretty short in the winter, and even then, we get ~25 days of cloudy weather per month between December and February. Last year it felt like I didn't see the sun in 2023 until April, aside from a couple of days here and there (mostly in March).

Thankfully, most of our power comes from hydro anyways.