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phil_style t1_is1ja4t wrote

Reply to comment by mynextthroway in A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today by Wagamaga

Yeah, I look around the planet at all the stuff we've built. Roads, hospitals, airports, global networks of telecoms cabling, satellites in space, nuclear power stations, tunnels through mountains, mineral mines with multi-kilometer wide pits, railways, undersea power cables, ships the size of skyscrapers, skyscrapers, ports, giant rings for particle experiments, space craft launching platforms, integrated air defence systems . .

And building up renweables and electric cars is too much effort?

Someone's pulling some serious wool.

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killcat t1_is1r1qk wrote

Renewables aren't going to do it alone, you can't rely on them enough, nuclear power on the other hand can.

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1purenoiz t1_is1v4el wrote

Edit: I am not anti nuclear power. In it's short usage on this planet it is demonstrably safer than coal and natural gas. But that doesn't make it problem free.

Still waiting for nuclear power to figure out a long term solution to it's waste problem.

That problem alone can't be ignored and in a lot of people's eyes, outweighs the benefits.

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sophons-are-here t1_is2dvxg wrote

The """"problem """ of nuclear waste was solved in the 60s. Nuclear waste isn't some green goo dripping out of barrels, it's small radioactive particles mixed into giant blocks of ceramics or plastics, encased in steel containers. That waste is going nowhere.

The radiation is so diluted and well-contained if you stand right next to any of the storage vats with a Geiger counter you won't see higher than background levels.

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1purenoiz t1_is568ch wrote

That is not a solution, that is a stop gap.

I can be ok with nuclear power AND be concerned about long term problems.

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WhatEvil t1_is4avcb wrote

Coal power plants release more radioactive materials into the atmosphere than nuclear, because coal contains trace amounts of Thorium.

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1purenoiz t1_is55xb4 wrote

I am not anti nuclear . And whataboutism is not intellectually honest.

Nuclear waste is a problem that can't be ignored, a half life for 5000 years means engineers need to figure out how to turn waste into something beneficial or harmless.

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