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[deleted] t1_ixk00wy wrote

Reply to comment by iwanttobehappy2022 in We might be waiting a decade for solutions to CT's high energy costs by -ctinsider

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iwanttobehappy2022 t1_ixk5ust wrote

It’s a joke. Jim Jones. The cult in South America that committed mass suicide by drinking kool aid laced with poison in Jonestown.

I’m saying if we get passed the point of the in which we can’t stop the positive feed back loop of Earth increasingly getting hotter and hotter. We party for ten years or forever how long. Live life to the fullest. No wars. Just fun. When the planet gets so bad, that people will start to have painful deaths full of suffering. Instead of suffering,slowly dying, fighting over the remaining resources until we go extinct. The species commits suicide. It’s not a realistic or a serious suggestion. It was a dark joke.

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MightyMason t1_ixkaulu wrote

Funny you don’t see the irony in your Jim Jones analogy and your own train of thought.

You sound like the guy on the corner with the “the end is near sign” those guys have been out there for decades swearing the world is coming to an end tomorrow. And yet here we are.

Lots of good, grounded, realistic, responses from other users in this thread though.

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iwanttobehappy2022 t1_ixke1se wrote

What exactly is your issue with what I said? I already stated nuclear should get even more funding and is the future and better long term then the other renewables. But nuclear is expensive, takes a long time to go live, political redtape, not in my backyardism make it costly, slow and sometimes impossible to get up and running.

Right now with the limited amount of money, the political climate, the current state of the energy industry, the window of time in which we need to decrease emissions, it makes more sense to invest more in solar and wind. We can more quickly reduce emissions which increases the window of time before the earth gets to hot, which gives nuclear more time to improve and become cheaper and more politically favorable.

I did not say that nuclear is bad and that wind and solar are carbon negative or that they produce enough energy to meet all our demands.

Based on the current science, political climate, money and time available, a long with the fact utilities/manufacturers/sellers/technicians/funding/governments have been pushing and have create an environment in which solar and wind are viable to be wildly adopted and installed. Regardless of we should do, that is going to happen.

I’m saying that should happen sooner. In the mean time nuclear gets billions of dollars from the government. It should. The funding, planning and promotion and researching and developing and the building of many more nuclear power plants should happen.

Because nuclear power plants take so long to get up and running usually longer than planned and go over budget

Along with solar and wind being more easily implemented

Push those more now, get emissions downs, which gives us more time, fossil fuels costs and renewable maintenance costs go up, now we can free up and justify more capital and labor to build more nuclear power plants.

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Synapse82 t1_ixkhlyp wrote

The weirdest version of happy in this sub. You aren’t the old happy

Also, you forget that we literally destroy the Atmosphere and entire countries to create toxic disposables batteries and plastics that goes into solar.

The mining lithium is destroying this planet to feel good about having your house be solar powered.

We need clean global energy. Nuclear.

10 years to build or less, is not a long time compared to the Slave labor and people dying for rare earth minerals.

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