Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
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#2Future generations will equate this logic to that of the people who healed all ailments with leeches.
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#3This is just sad, I thought the regression of civilization described in Foundation by Issac Asimov was far fetched BS.
How wrong I was! This is the exact example he uses in his books.
Re: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
#4Future generations will equate this logic to that of the people who healed all ailments with leeches.
This is worse than leeches. It's more like arsenic.
Re: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
#5A disaster.
I'm opposed to the construction of new nuclear plants (still open to possibility of new fusion plants at some in the future) but from an environmental standpoint it makes far more sense to maintain the existing nuclear plants - at least for now.
The biggest drawbacks of nuclear power (expensive and slow plant construction) are off the table with existing plants! Hardening existing plants against possible future catastrophe is probably far cheaper in both economic and human terms than new coal plan construction.
Japan already does pretty good job (relatively speaking) with solar power, but it could do much better with the money it will spend on new coal plants if it built more wind power and fixed up existing nuclear plants.
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#6Same thing happened in Germany. This is a really hard problem. I consider myself pretty pro-nuclear but it can never be 100% safe. I can't blame Japan for wanting out after Fukushima, but at the same time there has to be some kind of approach that balances short-term safety against the long-term consequences of carbonization.
Re: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
#7This is the perfect example of cutting off one’s nose to spite the face.
Re: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
#8A disaster. I'm opposed to the construction of new nuclear plants (still open to possibility of new fusion plants at some in the future) but from an environmental standpoint it makes far more sense to maintain the existing nuclear plants - at least for now. The biggest drawbacks of nuclear power (expensive and slow plant construction) are off the table with existing plants! Hardening existing plants against possible…
Misinformed opinions like this always make me so angry.
A major industrial power house like Japan or Korea simply has no way of building enough renewable energy sources. It is nonsense.
Re: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
#9Fukushima reactor design was terrible. Like legit bad. I wonder if open source nuclear power plants plans are the future.
Re: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
#10A disaster. I'm opposed to the construction of new nuclear plants (still open to possibility of new fusion plants at some in the future) but from an environmental standpoint it makes far more sense to maintain the existing nuclear plants - at least for now. The biggest drawbacks of nuclear power (expensive and slow plant construction) are off the table with existing plants! Hardening existing plants against possible…
Misinformed opinions like this always make me so angry. A major industrial power house like Japan or Korea simply has no way of building enough renewable energy sources. It is nonsense.
If you're going to call someone misinformed, i think it would only be fair if you cited sources