EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
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Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#2This is a good move.
Nuclear power is poorly understood and easily stigmatised but on balance is far less harmful than burning fossil fuels.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#3This is a good move. Nuclear power is poorly understood and easily stigmatised but on balance is far less harmful than burning fossil fuels.
After having read Gates’ latest book on climate change, one metaphor that stuck with me was the one on nuclear energy. It’s as if the Wright brothers invented the first airplane, flew off, crashed, lost every passenger, and then we collectively dropped the entire technology and every promise it held. Never to be visited again. Humans are weird.
(and I know the accidents were worse, but we iterated on car and plane safety, so why not energy safety?)
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#4Crazy they were able to label natural gas as “sustainable” but nuclear just barely squeaked in.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#5Germany's populistic policy decisions following Fukushima set us back so much.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#6This is a good move. Nuclear power is poorly understood and easily stigmatised but on balance is far less harmful than burning fossil fuels.
After having read Gates’ latest book on climate change, one metaphor that stuck with me was the one on nuclear energy. It’s as if the Wright brothers invented the first airplane, flew off, crashed, lost every passenger, and then we collectively dropped the entire technology and every promise it held. Never to be visited again. Humans are weird. (and I know the accidents were worse, but we iterated on car and plane sa…
It's worse than that.
It's like they succeeded and then many decades later flight MH17 happened and the world collectively lost its mind and declared air travel as inherently unsafe and condemned all research into it as dangerous.
The issue though, is that energy production is mostly quiet unless there's a problem, but people do see personal benefit in air travel.
Add to that: Coal is a silent killer, it's not obvious that it's killing us and in such numbers as it is. Nuclear is a dramatic killer, when we die from radiation it's clear and obvious and horrific.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#7Let’s just ignore the carbon released by cement production.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#8This is a good move. Nuclear power is poorly understood and easily stigmatised but on balance is far less harmful than burning fossil fuels.
After having read Gates’ latest book on climate change, one metaphor that stuck with me was the one on nuclear energy. It’s as if the Wright brothers invented the first airplane, flew off, crashed, lost every passenger, and then we collectively dropped the entire technology and every promise it held. Never to be visited again. Humans are weird. (and I know the accidents were worse, but we iterated on car and plane sa…
Ya, but the challenge, and I say that as a supporter of Nuclear in general, is that you don't sign up for the experiment. If you're in the radius of the plant if it were to fail, you might be wary of it.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#9This is a good move. Nuclear power is poorly understood and easily stigmatised but on balance is far less harmful than burning fossil fuels.
It’s far more centralized and prone to overly bloated government contracts, big industry, corruption, accounting shenanigans, excessive taxation to pay for the mistakes, and loss of individual freedom and control over where your energy dollars go to. Especially as compared to solar but it’s even bad compared to fossil fuels in these respects.
Re: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
After having read Gates’ latest book on climate change, one metaphor that stuck with me was the one on nuclear energy. It’s as if the Wright brothers invented the first airplane, flew off, crashed, lost every passenger, and then we collectively dropped the entire technology and every promise it held. Never to be visited again. Humans are weird. (and I know the accidents were worse, but we iterated on car and plane sa…
Ya, but the challenge, and I say that as a supporter of Nuclear in general, is that you don't sign up for the experiment. If you're in the radius of the plant if it were to fail, you might be wary of it.
People don't sign up for pollution from fossil fuels either.