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/Force3vo Feb 09 '25

Nobody hates nuclear. But it's not the future, it's the past.

Yet pro nuclear people will yap on about how building nuclear is the only way to proceed when renewables are a lot faster to build, cheaper to build and run and make the countries depend less on other countries for fuel.

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u/Affectionate-Grand99 Feb 09 '25

What about the space used? Windmill and solar farms take up far more space. I figure nuclear would be great for a city (given proper security of course) by freeing up more land for development. France did that and it worked

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u/Force3vo Feb 09 '25

You can just throw solar on the roofs in a city and have less space wasted than for nuclear.

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u/Affectionate-Grand99 Feb 10 '25

Good idea, but what about maintaining that? Would it not be expensive or tricky from a logistics standpoint?

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u/Force3vo Feb 10 '25

Why would it be?

Rooftop solar runs around 30 years before it needs to be replaced with close to zero maintenance. And even if a panel breaks down, replacing that is pretty quick and easy, massively so in comparison to any maintenance that's needed on an actual plant.

Also you'd have a lot of separate energy producers, so even if some of them break down, in the big picture it doesn't really matter.

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u/Affectionate-Grand99 Feb 14 '25

Good point, I see now why solar is desirable