Pro. One of the cleanest energy sources you can get. Highly reliable. Fear about waste is vastly overblown which becomes apparent when you spend even a second researching it.
It is one of the only viable energy sources for space travel, which means it’s not something we should phase out or stop researching. The only real alternative at this time is hydrogen fuel cells, which are explosive, and a lot more complicated. Solar is only viable at a certain distance to the sun. Nuclear energy is the clear winner by almost every metric.
Think about how basic of a concept nuclear is. You have a spicy rock heat up fluid. The rock stays spicy for a long time and you rarely need to change it. That’s it. You’re not burning anything. You aren’t using overly complicated electrical equipment and membranes. You don’t need specific weather conditions or specific geological features like rivers or geothermal vents. It’s a rock that gets hot and can stay hot.
Boiling water to spin turbines is so last century. We can generate electricity directly through the wind blowing and the sun shining now and it’s way less expensive.
I don’t know? Maybe because that is a brain-dead fucking take on the importance of space travel and completely ignores how nearly every advancement in the space industry leads to massive improvements for people and society?
I don’t have the time or patience to deal with people who are too fucking stupid to be able to comprehend why. Whitey on the moon… Are you fucking serious?
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Pro. One of the cleanest energy sources you can get. Highly reliable. Fear about waste is vastly overblown which becomes apparent when you spend even a second researching it.
It is one of the only viable energy sources for space travel, which means it’s not something we should phase out or stop researching. The only real alternative at this time is hydrogen fuel cells, which are explosive, and a lot more complicated. Solar is only viable at a certain distance to the sun. Nuclear energy is the clear winner by almost every metric.
Think about how basic of a concept nuclear is. You have a spicy rock heat up fluid. The rock stays spicy for a long time and you rarely need to change it. That’s it. You’re not burning anything. You aren’t using overly complicated electrical equipment and membranes. You don’t need specific weather conditions or specific geological features like rivers or geothermal vents. It’s a rock that gets hot and can stay hot.
Boiling water to spin turbines is so last century. We can generate electricity directly through the wind blowing and the sun shining now and it’s way less expensive.
To be fair, wind turbines are also just spinning turbines.
True but you get to skip the heating up some water bit.
Wind turbines don’t work in space.
Do you live in space? I don’t.
All of their pro points were about space travel explicitly
Cool story but that doesn’t mean shit to me living on earth.
BUT RADIATION BAD
Who gives a shit? People have actual real problems on Earth. These kind of wasteful distractions are fundamental reason why.
Whitey On The Moon
I don’t know? Maybe because that is a brain-dead fucking take on the importance of space travel and completely ignores how nearly every advancement in the space industry leads to massive improvements for people and society?
I don’t have the time or patience to deal with people who are too fucking stupid to be able to comprehend why. Whitey on the moon… Are you fucking serious?