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  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    anybody questioning this should factor in that a recent report found ~9 million deaths a year from fossil fuel air pollution

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        No they can't. They're radically less efficient and both cost more and kill more per unit power produced. They're also more extractive for the same reason.

      • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Wind and solar get less effective as you scale them up. In the windiest places, wind is effective, but then you have to go to places with less wind.

        Nuclear power is completely independent of weather. Flexible in location. High, consistent yield.

        • zukai12_ [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          and even in those windy places, turbines have to shut off when it gets too windy or else they break

      • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        At the current moment renewables are the way to go, especially since nuclear takes a while to build. But more nuclear plants a few decades back, while renewables were in their infancy, might've meant less fossil fuel related deaths.