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5. No, it did not do what it might have done because, as is...
Wed Dec 4, 2024, 02:19 PM
Dec 2024

...unsurprising, ignorance won.

A lot of reactionary assholes engaged in selective attention attacked it on exceedingly idiotic grounds saying so called "renewable energy" could replace all the world's nuclear plants. As is common with this set of credulous fools, they were completely disinterested in attacking fossil fuels. They still are, and the consequences of their extreme ignorance is written in the planetary atmosphere.

According to Jim Hansen, the famous climate scientist, despite all the antinuke caterwauling, writing in 2013, nuclear power saved more than two years worth of fossil fuel dumping at current rising rates. He cares about extreme global heating though. He's certainly not an idiot who has spent time musing and whining about Three Mile Island for the last four decades.

He gives a shit.

Which produces more energy in 2024, solar or nuclear energy? The answer to this question would involve understanding that the unit of macroscopic energy is the Exajoule.

I often post a link to Hansen's highly cited paper, but I'm beginning to believe antinukes are reading challenged.

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