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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 6 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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Luker88 ◴[13 Sep 25 07:21 UTC] No.45230034[source]▶
I am not sure people understand the implications of this.

First, it's not just nuclear, it's also Natural gas.

Second, lots of nations have incentives for "clean" energy. And now magically, all those incentives apply to nuclear and gas.

It's a money grab from nuclear and gas manufacturers. It's not that the courts were involved for nothing.

Still, we should use more nuclear. If only it was less expensive to build...

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m101 ◴[13 Sep 25 07:52 UTC] No.45230176[source]▶
Nuclear + gas is the climate friendly solution.
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kpmcc ◴[13 Sep 25 07:58 UTC] No.45230204[source]▶
What is climate friendly about natural gas?
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1. tedk-42 ◴[13 Sep 25 08:30 UTC] No.45230374[source]▶
Much better to have CO2 than methane in the atmosphere
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2. thrance ◴[13 Sep 25 10:48 UTC] No.45231026[source]▶
Even better to have neither.
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3. onion2k ◴[13 Sep 25 11:00 UTC] No.45231079[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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4. vintagedave ◴[13 Sep 25 12:04 UTC] No.45231390{3}[source]▶
Thus nuclear and solar. Not perfect. Considerably better.
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5. dudeinjapan ◴[13 Sep 25 12:52 UTC] No.45231680[source]▶
I tried telling that to my brother but he won't quit releasing methane.
6. dgellow ◴[13 Sep 25 16:52 UTC] No.45233492{4}[source]▶
Both nuclear and solar have conditions where they cannot generate energy. Nuclear is also slow to scale up/down. There is a need for something that has the properties of natural gas