Tech Giants quietly drop renewables and sign pledge to triple Nuclear Power
Posted by freedomforall 5 days, 2 hours ago to Science
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"After twenty years of hailing wind and solar, suddenly the world’s tech giants are cheering for nuclear power. Even worse — they don’t even mention the words carbon, low emissions or CO2. The new buzzwords are “safe, clean and firm“. They talk about needing energy “round the clock”, but they don’t say nuclear is “low emissions”. It’s like they want everyone to forget their activism. Did someone say something about climate change?
Meta, Amazon, and Google have flipped like a school of barracuda. Five minutes ago, life on Earth depended on achieving Net-Zero with fleets of wind farms in the sunset, now, they just want energy and lots of it. The big tech fish and their friends have signed a Large Energy Users Pledge admitting that the demand for energy is rising rapidly, that nuclear should triple by 2050 and that large energy users depend on the availability of abundant cheap energy (Small energy users too, Mr Bezos-Zuckerburg-Pichai.) The closest they come to hinting at the ghost of renewables is when they say they want energy that’s not dependent on “the weather, the season, or the geographical location”.
There’s no “Sorry we got it wrong”. There’s no apology for hectoring us, censoring us, or wasting billions of dollars. It’s just Mr Don’t-Look-Over-Here telling us what most engineers knew for 30 years. This is the billionaire club asking the taxpayers to build them more nuclear plants."
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Comment: Public-Private Partnerships? NIFO
"After twenty years of hailing wind and solar, suddenly the world’s tech giants are cheering for nuclear power. Even worse — they don’t even mention the words carbon, low emissions or CO2. The new buzzwords are “safe, clean and firm“. They talk about needing energy “round the clock”, but they don’t say nuclear is “low emissions”. It’s like they want everyone to forget their activism. Did someone say something about climate change?
Meta, Amazon, and Google have flipped like a school of barracuda. Five minutes ago, life on Earth depended on achieving Net-Zero with fleets of wind farms in the sunset, now, they just want energy and lots of it. The big tech fish and their friends have signed a Large Energy Users Pledge admitting that the demand for energy is rising rapidly, that nuclear should triple by 2050 and that large energy users depend on the availability of abundant cheap energy (Small energy users too, Mr Bezos-Zuckerburg-Pichai.) The closest they come to hinting at the ghost of renewables is when they say they want energy that’s not dependent on “the weather, the season, or the geographical location”.
There’s no “Sorry we got it wrong”. There’s no apology for hectoring us, censoring us, or wasting billions of dollars. It’s just Mr Don’t-Look-Over-Here telling us what most engineers knew for 30 years. This is the billionaire club asking the taxpayers to build them more nuclear plants."
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Comment: Public-Private Partnerships? NIFO
product with a massive mine in Chile. The trial proved a 15% savings of fuel for all the diesel-
engined equipment at the mine. To stop the prospect buying the product, the diesel supplier
dropped the price of diesel by 15%, temporarily.
No one cares about carbon unless it hits the bottom line. It's a corruption driven world.
My manager at the time told me the future was going to be electric cars and nuclear power to recharge them. Shortly after that, the Three Mile Island debacle [don't call it a disaster - NO ONE died] caused an exponential increase in regulations, followed by another after Chernobyl [which was nothing like US reactors] and another after Fukushima.
Nuclear will be cost-effective when the regulations start making common sense instead of focusing on preventing any possible incident, regardless of the impact.