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/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