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No, the Fukushima water release is not going to kill the Pacific Ocean (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean in the end the goal should be 100% renewables anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For now we have enough uranium for several centuries just in the existing, recyclable nuclear waste that we have in storage. There's no immediate need to switch away from uranium. There is a very pressing need to switch away from fossil carbon ASAP, and the amount of batteries we'd need to go 100% renewable right now isn't quite doable yet.

In the long term, 100% renewable is the way to go.

In the very long term, let's say millions of years, I'd say we should build a dyson swarm. Does that count as renewable or nuclear?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Battery technology is advancing at high speed. Currently the main objective is to switch off carbon heavy industry, however its often "replaced" with nuclear, wich has a loooong build time.

Instead there should be more renewables to replace coal etc. Right now.