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Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

(arstechnica.com)
425 points nixass | 1 comments | 02 Apr 21 18:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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DangitBobby ◴[02 Apr 21 18:38 UTC] No.26674437[source]▶
What happens to reactors after 50 or 100 years of global/national decline due to environmental and geopolitical circumstances?
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politician ◴[02 Apr 21 18:42 UTC] No.26674489[source]▶
Would you be OK with putting the reactors on the Moon and beaming the power down to Earth?
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toomuchtodo ◴[02 Apr 21 18:45 UTC] No.26674537[source]▶
Sure, 8 light minutes away sounds great. We’ll even get some light out of the transmission of energy to us and the waste is taken care of.
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Pfhreak ◴[02 Apr 21 18:48 UTC] No.26674570[source]▶
The moon is much, much closer than 8 light minutes away. Are you thinking of the sun? It's already doing a good job at sending energy to us from nuclear reactions.
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toomuchtodo ◴[02 Apr 21 18:49 UTC] No.26674581[source]▶
That’s the joke. The Sun is safe, cheap fusion at a distance. Enough sunlight hits the Earth in 30 minutes (I’ve seen figures as low as 2 minutes from the UAE, but am conservative for argument’s sake) to power humanity for a year.
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politician ◴[02 Apr 21 19:00 UTC] No.26674720[source]▶
Unfortunately, the same NIMBY crowd that hates nuclear also hates the idea of fields of solar cells and the idea of fields of wind farms.
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toomuchtodo ◴[02 Apr 21 19:15 UTC] No.26674910[source]▶
And yet, renewables account for almost all new generation being turned up.

Turns out there are lots of places to install panels and turbines where there aren’t NIMBYs.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416

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1. yellowapple ◴[02 Apr 21 19:24 UTC] No.26675021[source]▶
There are also lots of places to build nuclear power plants without NIMBYs.

Point being, NIMBYs often have a rather inflated idea of what counts as "in my back yard".