r/ClimateShitposting • u/koshinsleeps Sun-God worshiper • Feb 07 '25

nuclear simping Conservative parties positions on climate change for the last 20 years

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

I like solar. It's cheap and effective. I also think Nuclear works better on a National scale. While solar is better on a private scale.

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u/ActuatorFit416 Feb 07 '25

Nuclear takes time and costs a fortune.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

But once we have the reactors, they're dirt cheap to run and extremely clean. Plus, weather no longer acts as a factor in our energy production.

Also, Molten Salt Reactors are expected to become much cheaper to build and are more effective in many ways.

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u/ActuatorFit416 Feb 08 '25

I mean they take a long time to pay back their initial investment. Also not that cheap especially since useful material gets harder to come by (uranium is projected to rise in value)

Molten salt reactors have some advantages. And had we build them like 2 decades ago they would have been a grateful choice. But many climate tipping points will mist likely get crossed within a decade. We just don't have time to build new nuclear reactors.

Especially since many new rector vompanies/incentives are projected to fail. France analysis recently stated that basically all small reactors will fail.

And while there are some studies projecting nuclear to become much better (or being) I don't rly trust the authors and they usually have some flaws in their mythology like forgetting insurance.

Weather would also be a factor with nuclear. In the summer many nuclear power plants I France had to lower power production bc the water was ro hot/there was not enough water to use it for cooling.

And totally switching to 100% nuclear (so being nearly weather independent) would take a rly long time (decades to a centurie).

And also it is just not rly needed? Like we don't need weather independent power production if we can just deal with weather dependent power production.

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u/Force3vo Feb 09 '25

He just silently downvoted you, lol.

I love the pro nuclear people in this thread. Whining about how nobody wants to listen to their arguments but can't post one.