Yet another rewrite of “we didn’t start the fire” incoming.

Linux using proprietary drivers always feels like a plane using a transmission to me.

Lol you mean the corporate owned farmers who milk subsidies and your taxes while trying to convince you they’re just small blue collar workers? Fuck farmers.

Based on Trumps defenders, it’s a legal gray area, so yes.

Why ask if I am something only to then claim I am that very thing? You really have problems, guy.

Why did you moo? Are you the cattle? Actual retard.

I buy the product, the comment attacks people who buy the product. I’m quite literally the target group. “For some reason”

I hope you guys are memeing because getting passionately mad over guy branded stuff that we just find kinda neat is a new level of stupid I haven’t been exposed to yet. I want my asshole to smell like mint, so I buy dude wipes. I want canned water to cut down on plastic usage, so I buy liquid death. I want a burger that’s not made of animals so I buy a beyond burger. Beyond what? I don’t fucking know I just want a burger.

It’s not that deep.

I buy them because they smell like mint. I prefer them over normal wet wipes. I didn’t think this was such a passionate issue for people.

If they last for decades, why is there so much ewaste for specifically photovolatic cells? Theoretically lasting decades, sure, but they seem to have a high chance of breaking.

I don’t think there’s a single real world instance of a city having batteries being able to sustain the load for the night without any added generation. That would be newsworthy and a massive win for renewables. They might get there eventually with sodium based batteries but that has yet to be seen.

If solar panels were discarded less and battery arrays could be cheaply made so that nuclear and coal weren’t nessesary, I’d agree with you, but I haven’t seen either of those things. They’re “likely in the future” but by that time, we could make another nuclear power plant.

And all this without even considering fusion, which in my humble opinion, would replace renewables.

If you use the metric of LCOE, sure, throwing a bunch of cheap solar panels all over the place can just barely be cheaper than the cost to produce them. However, the article even admits this doesn’t include the nessesary use of batteries for renewables, assumes battery technologies will get cheaper and better, while disregarding alternatives. I have to still stress that even if I concede the point they’re almost the same where solar just barely wins, the waste is nowhere near the same. The need for batteries is nowhere near the same. These are hurdles solar still faces that nuclear doesn’t need to solve.

Photovolatic panels still generate thousands of times more waste than anything I’ve seen from nuclear and we don’t have cheap enough batteries to be able to make arrays to support entire cities the way a nuclear plant can and does.

I get why renewables are attractive but I still don’t see the downside to nuclear. The only valid point I’ve been given is “time to build” which yes, we should have started thirty years ago. Why not right now?

The cost and waste per GW/H of power is also staggeringly different. Even if we took spent reactor parts into account for waste and calculated the cost, would it fall short for solar or wind? I haven’t seen any data that would suggest renewables could compete with nuclear in terms of power generation per waste or cost, let alone beat it, but I’m willing to examine anything you put forth.

In fact, I’ve only ever seen the opposite. That nuclear has a superior ratio in nearly every metric and that’s not considering where fusion could end up taking us.

Handwaving the topic at hand to focus on tone policing. Typical.

390,000 metric tons since nuclear was started. In 1954. It wouldn’t even register a .5 on this chart.

It’s fucking insulting you know so little about what I’m talking about yet still disregard it. I shouldn’t need to hunt down something that should be readily apparent yet here I am.

It wouldn’t show up because nuclear waste is beyond miniscule and nearly every atom is accounted for. No other industry can claim that.

I love this graph because what it illustrates is that instead of going with the option that has virtually no waste, nuclear, everyone is fine with ramping up one that still is making a rather concerning amount of waste.

Celebrating taking the second best option seems really dumb when the even better one is right there.

The electronic waste crated by photovolatic cells harms nature. It’s not just a problem, it’s approaching the waste created by vapes. It’s not possible. I am yet again harping in about nuclear being the option.

The two current candidates are so far apart the people who claim to be undecided are ignorant or stupid, willingly or otherwise. I’d understand riding the fence between Biden and Bernie, even if I’ve made my choice between them, but between Trump and Biden?

That’s the kind of person who is undecided if they want to drive to work or walk down the middle of i-95

Started with Dog, ended with Doge. We’ve come full circle.

The mere existence of the things I linked you is pretty overwhelming evidence. Feel free to refute it at your leisure.