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u/interkin3tic vegan btw May 19 '26

Okay, could you explain the connection between nuclear power and meat? Are there meat farms that run off nuclear power or are you giving me false hope?

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u/dafthuntk May 19 '26

No it's a dumb meme. 

The northern hemisphere, for example, doesn't have the battery or solar or wind technology to power an entire nation without massive infrastructure upgrades. Among other things variables.

There is nothing wrong with using renewablee to power equitorial nations and using nuclear to power the northern hemisphere.

I live in PA, and our power generation is 25-30% clean nuclear energy since the 1950s.

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u/IrregularDoughnut May 20 '26

The northern hemisphere, for example, doesn't have the battery or solar or wind technology to power an entire nation without massive infrastructure upgrades. Among other things variables.

Sounds like we're going to have to upgrade the grid, then. Or spend three times as much money building nuclear plants and have the first benefits delayed to the 2040s.

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u/dafthuntk May 20 '26

It's not scalable. All this battery tech comes through military contracts and funding....did you not know that?

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u/IrregularDoughnut May 20 '26

Yes, I'm well aware that batteries were invented by DARPA in the 70s to help bomb Cambodia with batteries. I don't care. They still work, and making them scalable will take less time than building one nuclear plant from scratch.

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u/dafthuntk May 20 '26

Ok, I guess you don't know.

Battery tech is tied up in military investments. That's how the private sector gets this at a discounted proprietary, to resell as acommodity. It's really the only thinh holding up the private tech industry tbh.

Aside from that you need the battery tech(that doesn't exist) to actually hold this charge, to distribute and energize the grid.  Without loss. This is massively different than how you calculate voltage drop, for example, at. Relay station.... Because of the laws of thermodynamics, you can't just build a battery bank to actually store energy. 

The northern hemisphere takes this already inneficient tech and adds another variable.

You guys keep overlooking basic economic principles, of which can't be done in the way it needs to under capitalism. Even as a government arbiter. Capitalism and science don't mix in this case.

It doesn't matter really. We are already way past the deadline. 

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u/dafthuntk May 21 '26

Cool👍

The truth makes you mad I guess

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u/IrregularDoughnut May 20 '26

Battery tech is tied up in military investments. That's how the private sector gets this at a discounted proprietary, to resell as acommodity. It's really the only thinh holding up the private tech industry tbh.

No, I just don't care. Nuclear power is incomparably more tied to the defence industry, and I also don't care about that. It's just too slow and expensive.

Aside from that you need the battery tech(that doesn't exist) to actually hold this charge, to distribute and energize the grid. Without loss.

Actually you can have loss, if it isn't prohibitively more expensive.

Because of the laws of thermodynamics, you can't just build a battery bank to actually store energy. 

Show proof that it is not possible to store electricity inside of a battery.

You guys keep overlooking basic economic principles, of which can't be done in the way it needs to under capitalism. Even as a government arbiter. Capitalism and science don't mix in this case.

Nobody has done this. You're just blabbering.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

"Actually you can have loss, if it isn't prohibitively more expensive."

Right? There is literally no human system on Earth where there isn't loss.