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Liberals are always pushing for us all to use green energy like solar panels and stop using fossil fuels, while conservatives are saying that solar panels are inefficient and shouldn't be subsidized by the government at all.
I'm against a country becoming reliant on solar panels because it requires too much space and resources to install, and I'm against fossil fuels because it's wasteful to not utilize the carbon dioxide emitted.
I think we should all just go nuclear. It's a much more efficient way to generate energy, and with some more research we could make it even safer. It would give a country a competitive advantage since nuclear is such an efficient energy source, and also be good for the environment because it doesn't release as much pollution.
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first for molten salt
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>>128283111
>>This
All the live long day
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>>128283064
Uranium fission works, it's safe, it's efficient, it's reliable, and it's the best option for replacing fossil fuels in the long term until researchers can work out the kinks with LFTR or fusion.
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Actually, an antimatter-matter reactor would be best, but we're not there yet.
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>>128283064
OP hummanty is closer to completely clean energy than you think maybe 10-20 years probably
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its-kind-german-stellarator-could-revolutionise-the-way-we-use-energy
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>Liberals are retards that make decisions based on emotion rather than factual evidence : News at 11
There are so many modern designs, but they won't let us use them so were stuck with 50 year old plants that are still relatively safe but not as safe as modern designs.
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>>128283064
>I'm against a country becoming reliant on solar panels because it requires too much space and resources to install
Can we just stop with the meme that solar will ever be anything else than a small part of the electricity system?
After years of spending about 15 billion euros on solar subsidies pic related is the best the Germans could do with solar.
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>>128284708
Modern designs are also vastly more efficient. 4th gen breeder plants average 1GW per reactor now. A new, standard, four reactor plant would have about 5 times the installed capacity of most of the older single reactor plants in the US, while producing about 5% of the waste.
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>>128286355
cont.
And of course as soon as the Germans reduced their subsidies, solar installations crashed.
The "solar revolution" is basically already over in Germany.
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>>128284426
fission
>discover neutron
>20 years later build reactor that produce 5MW electrical power without help of computers
fusion
>50 years from building first fusion reactor
>continuous operation still counted in seconds
>can't even break net positive on energy consumption/production
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And from where we will get all that antimatter for reactors?
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>>128287804
Fusion is easy - any highschooler with a rich parent can build a simple Farnsworth fusor for a science fair and fuse some deuterium.
The hard part is engineering a way to pull it off without using more power to confine and operate the fusion plasma than you get out of the reaction.
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