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endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

Cerebral Bore posted:

Buddy, I think your priorities need straightening.

Like, yeah, it's a pretty bad opinion, but capitalism is going to kill mankind a hundred times faster than some ecohippies could ever hope to.

Combo of capitalism and ecohippies is in fact the biggest threat against mankind right now because of coal. Slowing down either influence helps.

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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Oon paskal taas Humpparis. AMA.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Jerry Cotton posted:

Oon paskal taas Humpparis. AMA.

Jos koputtaa loosin seinään niin vastataanko

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011
If we were to have a magical sequence of events to halve the global power consumption but produce it with coal, we're far worse off than if we keep on multiplying our power consumption but supply it with uranium. Even if we had a core melting down every 10 years, the damage would only be local it woud still still be better than ruining our entire atmosphere.

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

SnowblindFatal posted:

If we were to have a magical sequence of events to halve the global power consumption but produce it with coal, we're far worse off than if we keep on multiplying our power consumption but supply it with uranium. Even if we had a core melting down every 10 years, the damage would only be local it woud still still be better than ruining our entire atmosphere.

I don't think you know that much about nuclear power if you have these sort of opinions. There's absolutely huge issues with nuclear power production which are not related to Green talking points at all.

Technology isn't magic.

HerraS
Apr 15, 2012

Looking professional when committing genocide is essential. This is mostly achieved by using a beret.

Olive drab colour ensures the genocider will remain hidden from his prey until it's too late for them to do anything.



sähköä tulee töpselistä

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

HerraS posted:

sähköä tulee töpselistä

Ei mun iphone mitään sähköä tarvii, siinä johdossa on applen logo

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

It'd be easier to be in favour of nuclear power if Finnish nuclear plant projects weren't such a complete farce.

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

SulphagneSocialist posted:

It'd be easier to be in favour of nuclear power if Finnish nuclear plant projects weren't such a complete farce.

There's also the thing where somewhere around 2007 or 2008 the DoE in the US released their massive study about the future possibilities of nuclear power, and came to the conclusion that the needs of energy production can't be solved with nuclear power on account of various factors, such as bottlenecked production (there's only something like two or three manufacturers of critical components for reactors, and production of those can't be ramped up on a short notice), long development times for new plants and inefficiencies inherit in the nuclear power infrastructures.

Their best prognosis for nuclear power usage was that nuclear power can maybe, if there's massive investment in the field NOW, cover the increase in energy needs for the world for the next 20 years. And this didn't happen.

Pro-nuclear power in many forms is just nerd identity policies for the most part which ignores the complex nature of power production and power infrastructures.

Now if you'd go "lets have public nuclear projects on a non-profit based model, and go big on renewable energy", that would be a completely different thing. But technology worshippers just go "nuclear is the solution."

Kemper Boyd fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Mar 3, 2018

uncop
Oct 23, 2010
Seems like Center’s Paavo problems are over for now, but in the opposite way one would have expected. What a man.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10100561

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Truly a modern day martyr.

Golden Gate Bride
Oct 23, 2008
knife to meet you
Hyvä Paavo

Issaries
Sep 15, 2008

"At the end of the day
We are all human beings
My father once told me that
The world has no borders"

Liian Kepu kansalaispuolueelle.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

uncop posted:

Seems like Center’s Paavo problems are over for now, but in the opposite way one would have expected. What a man.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10100561

Well, now Väyrynen has no issues that would stop him from competing for the post of Center Party chairman. :v:

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Yes, but on the other hand German greens shut down already operational plants and replaced them with coal.

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011
Sounds like all problems related to nuclear power are such that they could be overcome. However, using coal without polluting our atmosphere is a bit out of reach with our current understanding of physics.

And yes, as the poster above mentions, renewable energy has its share of issues (energy storage and so on) to be solved. It's not realistic to assume that they will take over big enough chunks of our energy production any time soon.

SnowblindFatal fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Mar 3, 2018

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

doverhog posted:

Yes, but on the other hand German greens shut down already operational plants and replaced them with coal.

That was the German kok, actually.

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011

Cerebral Bore posted:

That was the German kok, actually.

Ahh yes, we simply need to disband the use of uranium as an energy source at the same time as we have a socialist revolution to prevent the righties from ruining any good plans.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Jos vastavallankumoukselliset laitetaan uuniin, niin kyllähän siitä voimalaitos tai pari saadaan aikaiseksi :ussr:

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011

SnowblindFatal posted:

Ahh yes, we simply need to disband the use of uranium as an energy source at the same time as we have a socialist revolution to prevent the righties from ruining any good plans.

Don't get me wrong. Deep down you all know I wish this would happen. Maybe if people like me believed in it enough...

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

SnowblindFatal posted:

Ahh yes, we simply need to disband the use of uranium as an energy source at the same time as we have a socialist revolution to prevent the righties from ruining any good plans.

The gently caress is this and what's it got to do with anything?

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Has anyone ever seen Paavo Väyrynen and Brother Christmas in the same room together???

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin
Fired from a party you founded. Just incredible :wtc:

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

DarkCrawler posted:

Fired from a party you founded. Just incredible :wtc:

Väyrynen did in two years what took 20 years from Soini (okay, Timo resigned himself but he lost his party all the same)

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Cerebral Bore posted:

That was the German kok, actually.

They did it due to green pressure and propaganda.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

doverhog posted:

They did it due to green pressure and propaganda.

Pretty interesting that a party with like 10% of the seats in the Bundestag apparently can dictate German policy at will. Wonder why they've never used this superpower for other stuff.

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

SnowblindFatal posted:

Sounds like all problems related to nuclear power are such that they could be overcome.

No, that's just your Dunning-Kruger talking.

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

Kemper Boyd posted:

No, that's just your Dunning-Kruger talking.

:ironicat:

Switching fully over to nuclear would, indeed, be a long process. That doesn't mean anti-nuclear propaganda hasn't already massively harmed the environment. You're quoting studies you haven't even read. Nuclear is far from perfect, but it's better than coal.

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme
The only problem with nuclear power is contracting to the cheapest possible supplier and then being surprised that they can't build things reliably.

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme
It's like buying Chinese steel and then being surprised that it's actually all just styrofoam and assorted garbage. Who would have thought?!

Bensa
Aug 21, 2007

Loyal 'til the end.
Nuclear power has been crippled by choosing the development path for power generation based on military needs, and the stop in development in the 80s. People complain about uranium mining being dirty (it is, you can't only concentrate uranium so you end up with heavy metal sludge), but we've proven non-polluting extraction from seawater with a fraction of the green house gas emissions as from mining, but its marginally more expensive (fuel is a rounding error in nuclear budgets) so we keep on mining instead. Capitalism doesn't care about externalities, unless you price them.

Nuclear power plant construction is bottle necked by the manufacture of large pressure vessels and the regulatory process, its a bit too late to react now. But that is a legacy from the military development path as well as the licensing process incentivizing large reactors.

doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Cerebral Bore posted:

Pretty interesting that a party with like 10% of the seats in the Bundestag apparently can dictate German policy at will. Wonder why they've never used this superpower for other stuff.

They helped in making the public opinion in Germany hysterically anti-nuclear, which then caused the switch to coal. Also I mean everyone who is ideologically anti nuclear, and drat the environment, whether they be a member of the Green party or not.

DanTheFryingPan
Jan 28, 2006
Our Savior Pave is here to explain what this is all about.

God Emperor of Finland posted:

Eilen Kansalaispuolueesta julkisuuteen tulleisiin outoihin uutisiin on luonnollinen selitys: on meneillään puolueen kaappausyritys.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Good that he's honest about what he's doing, I guess?

El Perkele
Nov 7, 2002

I HAVE SHIT OPINIONS ON STAR WARS MOVIES!!!

I can't even call the right one bad.
Nuclear power is great if you think it is a platonic ideal floating around in a theoretical void, completely devoid of any interactions with societies it is supposed to run

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Päivän Paavo:
https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005595230.html?ref=rss

El Perkele
Nov 7, 2002

I HAVE SHIT OPINIONS ON STAR WARS MOVIES!!!

I can't even call the right one bad.
"nuclear power is very safe, we should deregulate it"
"tell me more"
"coal kills thousands of times more people than nuclear power"
"which one is more regulated"
"nuclear power by like thousands of times"

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

Wow IS really cutting corners nowadays huh. Letting the reporter also do all the editing work.

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El Perkele
Nov 7, 2002

I HAVE SHIT OPINIONS ON STAR WARS MOVIES!!!

I can't even call the right one bad.

There are two generations of people who have seen satires of Paavo their entire lifetimes, and the monster is with us.

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