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Clumsy. Did they at least pick them up on the way out?

Fine. Apart from the drama of designing, managing the plant, disposal, storage and guarding of residue, waste of mining and preparing the fuel and being a constant target for assholes (e.g. ZNPP), I have no major problem with nuclear power.

Comparing with most sources today, it's one of the cleanest and most reliable, but it's not much cheaper than wind/solar if you account for the construction/maintenance/safety/insurance/dismantlement costs (last time I checked it was 0.06-0.15 per kWh).

Still, I placed it really far down in the list, because it's perfect for baseload power and should be the last of our concerns and the last option we ditch when addressing climate change (looking at you, Merkel).

PS: on second thought, everybody also vastly underestimates the massive cost of disposing and recycling wind turbines and solar panels...yea :/

Thought experiment: burn a fuel, now how much energy do you think you have to use to go capture all the CO2 molecules from the air and turn them into a material? At best, you're going to need twice as much energy to recapture the fuel as what you got from burning it.

But you say: "the energy to power CO2 capture will come from green sources". Yes, but these require energy to be produced and you're encumbering already lower density energy sources than fuel with reversing CO2 debt, when we need those energy sources to power everything else.

It's a good way to kick the can down the road and say "we'll fix it later, when we have lots of cheap energy that we can afford to waste."

The answer is, broadly in this order:

• Don't cut old forests, these are the best at absorbing CO2 and keeping it in the ground.
• Minimize forest fires with strategic multi-species tiling, spacing, having grazers eat biofuel
• Reduce energy consumption through mass transit, home, agricultural and industrial innovation to improve efficiency and reduce waste
• If you are already not cutting forests, plant trees (takes them centuries to become efficient), grasses and seaweed where adequate (e.g. Scottish highlands) and try to sequester them in swamps, mines or furniture.
• Move to 100% green energy sources
• Use emission-neutral vehicles
• Invent batteries that can store surplus energy for baseload power and shut down nuclear powerplants (if you must..).
• If there is any surplus green energy left, capture as much concentrated CO2 with algae at CO2-intensive exhausts like natural gas plants and test with artificial methods to see how they compare with plant-based capture.
• Artificial direct-from air capture with whatever unused energy we have left after all these steps <-------this is this article is right here at the end, once all the other mammoth problems have been solved

I don't know who upvoted my deleted comment, but yes, getting remindmebot names right at first try is hard 😶‍🌫️

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Which reminds me: we need a leopardsatemyface community

Thermodynamics says this is not the answer.

It did not come out of nowhere, it's right in there: I mentioned taxes because using a public good/service is only freeloading (like people imply with google scraping public data or Elon when he talks about data pillaging) if you don't pay for its upkeep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum#/media/File:Fresco_en_el_lupanar,_Pompeya._05.JPG yep, wish there were more of these

Because reddit is inundated with bots and trolls. You could see it during the gone private strike, people who can't think 2 steps ahead heckling the mods for wanting to be able to do their job voluntarily.

PS: see https://lemmy.world/post/1044141

Lol I'm 40% sure this is a joke, but in case it isn't: if you place conductors in the microwave: sometimes it's a spoon, sometimes it's the silver lining on a plate, or you can go overboard and throw actual aluminum foil in there for good measure...the microwaves drive a current in the conductor **, which creates sparks from lots of tiny arcs...lightning indeed my friend :D

Suggestion: Forks are particularly spectacular too

PS: the foil should act as shielding against the microwaves, so I predict that the content won't warm up, but maybe the hole is enough to let it heat it a bit :)

** If a conductor is not convex (e.g. fork, crinkled aluminum foil), each crease acts as a capacitor, so when the microwaves drive (through resonance) a current and overcharge the capacitor plates, they short the dielectric (the air in this case) and create the arcs.