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ExplodingSims posted:Solar panels on building don't really generate enough power to offset the cost of them for the most part. You can basically run the lights, but any high power stuff, like the A/C system is still going to need to be run off the grid. Maybe not for a multi-story office complex, but it'd be cool to run the numbers for something like Wal-Mart or Home Depot. Even if it couldn't completely replace grid power, I'd imagine it'd make a pretty big dent in demand. Nessus posted:It depends what you mean by "nearly eternal." A lot of dangerous nuclear waste will be very dangerous for a long time. There are steps that can reduce that risk, some of which involve "using it as fuel again" since the radioactive poo poo actually makes good reactor fuel. It involves a lot of plutonium which people could extract for nuclear bombs, however, which evidently presents a fundamental risk of some kind, possibly in case someone decides to steal it? I was never clear on this, but "proliferation risk" is usually cited when that factoid comes up. There's also thorium, which is both way more common than uranium and basically useless for producing weapons-grade material.
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