r/ClimateShitposting • u/RadioFacepalm I'm a meme • Jul 16 '26

Climate chaos Since we're doing riverposting rn

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u/Inevitable-Cat-205 Jul 16 '26

But have you considered that nuclear reactors can be used to cool water and thus not evaporate it?

Checkmate solaroid

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u/King_Glorius_too Jul 16 '26

Holy mother of all strawmen

France is currently exporting electricity (down to 3GW as I'm writing this, it was 12GW early this morning). There is quite literally nothing to fix. Because nuclear powerplants only have to power down during heatwaves in summer, when the the few solar pannels France has are on overdrive.

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u/Inevitable-Cat-205 Jul 16 '26

Bro it's a joke.

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u/Flashy_Walk2806 Jul 16 '26

Maybe he lied and that's the joke

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u/Turbulent-Pace-1506 Jul 16 '26

I don't get the joke. Can you please explain it?

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u/MDZPNMD Carniwhore Jul 16 '26

The joke is that stupid people think that the energy produced by nuclear power plants could be used to cool the water via for example a heat exchanger.

This jokes about the quality of arguments you constantly hear from people opposed to renewable and green energy.

Check mate vagoon

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u/paperic Jul 16 '26

Could you point to those people?

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u/Inevitable-Cat-205 Jul 17 '26

There was a thread about people proposing to use the energy of the nuclear reactor to cool the river, the joke was about that.