Dead Horse Interchange

CIANigger wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:38 am

I get that in the case of Nuclear materials they are difficult to store safely once used up, risk of meltdown, etc. However it produces so much energy for so little material! As far as I know there's no emissions fucking with the air, and all you're really doing is heating water to drive turbines. Can't get much cleaner than that shit.

Dealing with the used nuclear fuel is actually a seriously fucked up business. Uranium keeps being radioactive basically forever, and the process of storing it away safely for thousands of years (without it poisoning underground water tables or being susceptible to seismic activity) is hard and costly.

Also, whenever a nuclear power plant goes SCRAM, expect shit to be contamined around it forever - specially if they need to release the contained coolant (usually water) in some way, spreading its radioactivity around.

They are efficient and relatively clean, but still, operating nuclear power plants is a fucked up business, and I can see why people would weight it against its cons and veto it, even if you completely disregard the "nuclear power plants are atomic bombs!" retards.

Tony Schiavone wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:26 am

>move 80% of world population
to Iceland
>climate change solved forever

The solutions are so simple. If only those plucky GOP didn't thwart us at every turn.

I get that, but we have Yellowstone here in the states that could be tapped.

Nuclear power only works if you have competent employees. And we (in the US at least) live in a nation of legal weed and minority hiring quotas.

Liar Revealed wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:48 am

What about geothermal?

Can get very haram very quickly if you fuck up even one drilling. Then the nearby settlements will spend the next couple years being torn apart in slow motion thanks to tectonic apeshittery.

Le Redditeur wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:56 am

Also, whenever a nuclear power plant goes SCRAM, expect shit to be contamined around it forever - specially if they need to release the contained coolant (usually water) in some way, spreading its radioactivity around.

I've actually read some cool stuff about the next generaten of nuclear power plants. They're smaller, more economically viable, can actually run with used Uranium and other shit, they're not reliant on active cooling that can fail, and they can shut themselves down automatically in case shit does start to hit the fan.

What we really need is to develop OILIX

Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:48 pm

What we really need is to develop OILIX

But that was invented in 1999 by Dr. Madnar!

CIANigger wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:54 pm

But that was invented in 1999 by Dr. Madnar!

Kio Marv invented OILIX. Dr Madnar invented Metal Gear

Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:34 pm

CIANigger wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:54 pm

But that was invented in 1999 by Dr. Madnar!

Kio Marv invented OILIX. Dr Madnar invented Metal Gear

Ya know I could've easily googled that, knew I was wrong, and still chose not to.

But who invented ELEX?

Piranha Bytes, of course.

Who invented AIDS?