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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. T-A ◴[13 Sep 25 09:30 UTC] No.45230688[source]▶
A methane molecule is one carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms. More than half of the energy released by burning it (53% according to [1]) comes from oxidizing the hydrogen to water. So it's roughly half as bad as coal in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, and does not have the additional problems of sulfur (acid rain) and soot.

[1] https://people.wou.edu/~courtna/GS361/Energy_From_Fossil_Fue...

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2. LunaSea ◴[13 Sep 25 10:17 UTC] No.45230866[source]▶
So not climate friendly.
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4. Aachen ◴[13 Sep 25 12:11 UTC] No.45231415[source]▶
With that logic, humans aren't climate friendly and should be transitioned away from

Different shades of grey. We'll always cause pollution as part of being. I don't believe that the person above meant it as a final solution to keep burning fossil fuels

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5. lm28469 ◴[13 Sep 25 12:13 UTC] No.45231422[source]▶
At that point human life isn't climate friendly... everyone wants to live like the average american with 2 cars and 4 ac units per households, when Asia and Africa come for their fair share, even if they only claim 25% of it, we're fucked, no amount of battery or solar panel will make this consumeristic and "growth forever" mentality sustainable, because by definition it is a boundless quest. Half of the world still live like medieval peasants with less than $7 a day, this is just the beginning
6. SXX ◴[13 Sep 25 17:41 UTC] No.45233864{3}[source]▶
> With that logic, humans aren't climate friendly and should be transitioned away from

Well, that's mostly solved problem by EU and even SEA:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/europe/2024/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/south-eastern-asia/2024/