The Nuclear debate

[SaintsSeptember]

So when do we get the nuclear update disaster equivalent of windows vista?

For god sake don’t let Microsoft os anywhere near nuclear reactors

I've often imagined what it would be like if Microsoft made cars.
You'd come out of the Supermarket with your trolly full of booze groceries.
There's your car with the engine out and bits scattered all around, and the guy there in the overalls tells
you. Hey mate, we're just doing an upgrade , it might take a moment.
Several hours later you get in your car. It rattles and for some reason won't reach the speed limit.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

The LNP have no nuclear strategy. It’s just talk.

It’s just talk and talk and talk to filibuster and delay renewables as long as possible so that fossil fuels can keep burning.

Like most politics these days there is no actual policy. It’s just announcements of things that don’t exist.

 

[barreness]

US Tech companies appear to be massively supporting nuclear to power data centres. Both Microsoft and Google have made strategic investments in nuclear.

It's kinda dumb though right? Our new invention(which is definitely not intelligent) requires huge amounts of power so we'll restart some nuclear plants.

If the plan was to shut down a coal/gas plant and replace it sure, but more energy is required so fire up the spicy rocks and keep the polluting thingies

 

[peetoo]

So does it make sense for transport to have nuclear power?

 

[SaintsSeptember]

So does it make sense for transport to have nuclear power?

If your transport is a big boat that goes under the water.

 

[peetoo]

If your transport is a big boat that goes under the water.

Or interplanetary probe

 

[nut]

I don’t think he missed anyone.

 

[QuietB]

I just read this in The Saturday Paper - WOW

"What also didn’t break through – and this may be just as important – is the positive news: the news that we are not helpless before this crisis, that this problem is within our capacity to solve. This year, we passed the point where globally every day one gigawatt of solar panels is installed – the same output as a new nuclear plant.

Also this year, California used a quarter less natural gas because the state’s solar panels and batteries have made up that difference. “A quarter less natural gas in a year in the world’s fifth-largest economy,” McKibben wrote, “is the biggest single bite yet taken out of the eventual temperature of the earth, and yet it is passing mostly unnoticed.”

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I just read this in The Saturday Paper - WOW

"What also didn’t break through – and this may be just as important – is the positive news: the news that we are not helpless before this crisis, that this problem is within our capacity to solve. This year, we passed the point where globally every day one gigawatt of solar panels is installed – the same output as a new nuclear plant.

Also this year, California used a quarter less natural gas because the state’s solar panels and batteries have made up that difference. “A quarter less natural gas in a year in the world’s fifth-largest economy,” McKibben wrote, “is the biggest single bite yet taken out of the eventual temperature of the earth, and yet it is passing mostly unnoticed.”

Its bullshit though.
A Gigiawatt of Solar doesn't produce any more electricity than my old shoes in the middle of the night.
Still good they install it, but god some people are too dumb to report on this stuff.