Taps Coogan – August 8th, 2021
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With all the environmental apocalypse mongering that’s gone on over the last 15 years or so, the following discussion between the FS Club and Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never, is a nice palate cleanser.
If you can make it through the first eight or nine minutes, you’re in for one of the few balanced discussions on environmental topics that you’re likely to find anywhere.
Enjoy:
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I think this is great for people who are deep in the environmentalism-over-everything camp, but I think because he doesn’t like the cost benefit analysis just advocating nuclear wont go very far (due to [geo]political issues and costs [that he says costs as much as solar/wind despite solar and wind being deployed in many more countries than those who are “allowed” to go nuclear]), as well as ignoring that most land (and surface area of the planet) is not habitatated by people or wild life and ignoring natural cycles the planet has undergone (at least from core samples from ice… Read more »
The standardized designs of Small Modular Reactors will be cheaper than the big monstrous nuclear plants. These reactors are “mass produced” in a factory and shipped to a much smaller site. This is great as these designs are already approved by the govt, the quality control in a factory is going to be great and easier to control and the end-of-life disposal of the reactors 50 or 70 years in the future is MUCH more manageable. If Solar and Wind are so economical, why do they STILL require subsidies?? It’s because they aren’t economical once you add ALL the costs… Read more »
> This is great as these designs are already approved by the govt Umm, there is no 1 world govt… good for the countries that can convince their populations that it’s super duper safe™ and deploy it, everyone else where their govt cannot, this solves nothing. > If Solar and Wind are so economical, why do they STILL require subsidies?? It’s because they aren’t economical once you add ALL the costs including grid modifications due to intermittent production. You must be completely ignorant of 24/7 CSP that is already deployed in a few countries EXECPT for the US. Most recent… Read more »