Considering fossil fuels won't last forever, what's so bad about investing in alternative sources of energy
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Caleb Taylor
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Joseph Johnson
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You aint fooling me, schlomo
Mason Ortiz
Except that's wrong, bucko,
Sebastian Cruz
Why can't we treat it like anything else on the market? When it's cost-effective, buy it. If it's not, don't.
Isaac Murphy
the bad part is falsely holding certain companies in higher priority where specific lobbyists and govt officials have coincidentally invested heavily in. almost as if they are trying to get rid of the competition that offers cheaper, more reliable products
Mason Howard
We can create synthetic everything that is actually higher quality than what we boil out of dinosaur juice. It just isn't as cheap.
If supply gets scarce, prices rise. Once price rises to the point where synthetics can make a profit, synthetic becomes the new regular. 100% production shifts to what is now profitable, which causes prices to drop again.
"Peak oil" has been a sandkike meme for decades
>we'd be on clean, reliable nuclear power if not for these same clueless envirofaggots sabotaging it for the last sixty years
Nolan Edwards
Stop making threads that are one sentence writing prompts.
This is a proper Sup Forums thread.
Make threads like this, with lots of information and a specific topic, not a broad suggestion of something to discuss.
Nathan Rogers
Aside from the fact that right now Poland produces its own energy and if we're forced to close our coal power plants, we're gonna have to buy it from Germany?
Alexander Williams
Nigger, we're number 2 in the entire world for producing renewable energy.
We use so much energy that using coal and nuclear is basically enviable.
Isaac Cruz
nuclear is the future
energy independence is important for countries
reactors are getting smaller
the price of uranium went from 18-26
its the new gold
suppliers are cutting production
demand is being restricted by regulations/gov shit
Luke James
invest in uranium if you didnt get the picture yet
Alexander Roberts
Post the original one by Ben "Gas Chambers" Garrison
Ryder Williams
Because corporations that have amassed enough wealth to control the world obviously have no desire to actually protect the world under any circumstance. Obviously. They'd never purposefully lose money on any product even if it meant they'd all drown and burn to death simultaneously.
Adam Cooper
There is not enough easily accessible material to make enough nuclear plants to replace any reasonable amount of fossil fuel plants.
Nolan Wilson
Literally doesn't matter. Aquifers are going to dry up, and freshwater supplies will dwindle trimming the fat in our population long before oil's an issue.
Camden Sanchez
>Considering fossil fuels won't last forever, what's so bad about investing in alternative sources of energy
The only viable non fossil fuel is nuclear. Now currently only fission works but it works damn well and we have tech that will make the leap to steam power look like a salt flat.
Uranium will be surpassed by thorium as a far superior fuel source and able to be used in a far better reactor design.
What will happen is all that current hardly even used uranium 'spent' fuel will need to be reprocessed in uranium breeder reactors to use it all up and end our nuclear waste storage issue. This process is slightly more expensive than current light water reactor once through, but it's needed.
The mainstay of the nuclear fleet will by LFTRs in a range of sizes.
James Gonzalez
Molten salt is too hard to deal with. It's a meme.
Dominic Sanchez
>Molten salt is too hard to deal with.
Which is why solar is using it to try and store thermal energy?
Anthony Ortiz
the vacuum of space, containment of superheated plasma, & the crushing pressures of the deep are are hard to deal with you fucking insufferable inbred
we still DO deal with them because fortunately not everybody thinks like you
what other options are there going to be in a few decades, you dumb fuck? pick one. you're going to name me a better option now, & you're going to explain why, otherwise i warmly invite you to go fuck yourself the way your uncle taught you
Ethan Perry
they're not
The best option so far is to just use as many alternative sources as possibles since none of them are a magic bullet solar and wind will probably be the new workhorses until fusion comes around.
All engineering problems are not the same. Dealing with molten salt is just really hard and expensive right now.
Jacob Wright
I don't need fossil fuels to last forever, only as long as my lifetime.
Josiah Morris
>they're not
Ah so what is the Andasol plant doing then?
Parker Nguyen
>alternative sources of energy
It's called nuclear, faggot.
>they're not
>he didn't watch that shitty Bond movie
>he's never driven between Vegas and LA
come on man
Mason Stewart
The fact that it's not practical yet?
If it were, we would be using it in bulk by now, fossil companies be damned.