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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/sanicmeister • Sep 13 '26
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Yup right now the cheapest and quickest energy to build is solar and wind
16 u/BobbyDukeArts Sep 13 '26 But the best is nuclear 10 u/Silly-Power Sep 13 '26 Except it takes years to build a new reactor and the cost to generate electricity is higher. But other than the extra time and extra cost, its better. 18 u/PeriapsisStudios Sep 13 '26 The advantage it has is it tends to take up less space and is more viable at higher latitudes where the sunlight is less intense. I’d argue it fills the gaps where solar doesn’t work as well. 11 u/Cow_God Sep 13 '26 Yeah, we need a mix of renewables, but nuclear is the future. Especially from a conservation standpoint. It has the smallest footprint of any energy source which means we're destroying less ecosystems 3 u/FutureVawX 29d ago I would argue that nuclear is needed now because it's a very mature technology that produce massive amount of energy. Solar is the future, but current technology is still technically in infancy. While wind takes so much space to produce tiny amount of energy, maybe it'll get better too in the future. 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 26d ago Isnt it a non renewable source 1 u/Cow_God 26d ago There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
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But the best is nuclear
10 u/Silly-Power Sep 13 '26 Except it takes years to build a new reactor and the cost to generate electricity is higher. But other than the extra time and extra cost, its better. 18 u/PeriapsisStudios Sep 13 '26 The advantage it has is it tends to take up less space and is more viable at higher latitudes where the sunlight is less intense. I’d argue it fills the gaps where solar doesn’t work as well. 11 u/Cow_God Sep 13 '26 Yeah, we need a mix of renewables, but nuclear is the future. Especially from a conservation standpoint. It has the smallest footprint of any energy source which means we're destroying less ecosystems 3 u/FutureVawX 29d ago I would argue that nuclear is needed now because it's a very mature technology that produce massive amount of energy. Solar is the future, but current technology is still technically in infancy. While wind takes so much space to produce tiny amount of energy, maybe it'll get better too in the future. 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 26d ago Isnt it a non renewable source 1 u/Cow_God 26d ago There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
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Except it takes years to build a new reactor and the cost to generate electricity is higher. But other than the extra time and extra cost, its better.
18 u/PeriapsisStudios Sep 13 '26 The advantage it has is it tends to take up less space and is more viable at higher latitudes where the sunlight is less intense. I’d argue it fills the gaps where solar doesn’t work as well. 11 u/Cow_God Sep 13 '26 Yeah, we need a mix of renewables, but nuclear is the future. Especially from a conservation standpoint. It has the smallest footprint of any energy source which means we're destroying less ecosystems 3 u/FutureVawX 29d ago I would argue that nuclear is needed now because it's a very mature technology that produce massive amount of energy. Solar is the future, but current technology is still technically in infancy. While wind takes so much space to produce tiny amount of energy, maybe it'll get better too in the future. 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 26d ago Isnt it a non renewable source 1 u/Cow_God 26d ago There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
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The advantage it has is it tends to take up less space and is more viable at higher latitudes where the sunlight is less intense. I’d argue it fills the gaps where solar doesn’t work as well.
11 u/Cow_God Sep 13 '26 Yeah, we need a mix of renewables, but nuclear is the future. Especially from a conservation standpoint. It has the smallest footprint of any energy source which means we're destroying less ecosystems 3 u/FutureVawX 29d ago I would argue that nuclear is needed now because it's a very mature technology that produce massive amount of energy. Solar is the future, but current technology is still technically in infancy. While wind takes so much space to produce tiny amount of energy, maybe it'll get better too in the future. 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 26d ago Isnt it a non renewable source 1 u/Cow_God 26d ago There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
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Yeah, we need a mix of renewables, but nuclear is the future.
Especially from a conservation standpoint. It has the smallest footprint of any energy source which means we're destroying less ecosystems
3 u/FutureVawX 29d ago I would argue that nuclear is needed now because it's a very mature technology that produce massive amount of energy. Solar is the future, but current technology is still technically in infancy. While wind takes so much space to produce tiny amount of energy, maybe it'll get better too in the future. 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 26d ago Isnt it a non renewable source 1 u/Cow_God 26d ago There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
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I would argue that nuclear is needed now because it's a very mature technology that produce massive amount of energy.
Solar is the future, but current technology is still technically in infancy.
While wind takes so much space to produce tiny amount of energy, maybe it'll get better too in the future.
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Isnt it a non renewable source
1 u/Cow_God 26d ago There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least 1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
There's enough uranium, thorium, and other fissiles on earth to last for hundreds of millions of years at least
1 u/Content-Guarantee-91 25d ago Fire
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u/Good_Entertainer9383 Sep 13 '26
Yup right now the cheapest and quickest energy to build is solar and wind