sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square227fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down13
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago Nuclear power is the ONLY form of clean energy that can be scaled up in time to save us from the worst of climate change Except the plants take so long to build they won’t be ready until we’re at 2°C
minus-squareInstrument_Data@livellosegreto.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIt has been fifty years that “oh no they take so long to build, better never start” that by today we would have completely decarbonized energy generation if we started actually building them.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWe could have also built solar collectors in orbit and beamed carbon-free electricity to Earth if we started 50 years ago. Heck, if we funded fusion research properly there’s a good chance we’d have had that by the mid 90s
Except the plants take so long to build they won’t be ready until we’re at 2°C
It has been fifty years that “oh no they take so long to build, better never start” that by today we would have completely decarbonized energy generation if we started actually building them.
We could have also built solar collectors in orbit and beamed carbon-free electricity to Earth if we started 50 years ago.
Heck, if we funded fusion research properly there’s a good chance we’d have had that by the mid 90s