Just Stop Oil Protesters

[John q]

The sun has caused far more deaths than nuclear energy ever did, just saying.

 

[Onoma1]

Hi all

I was never entirely convinced, partially because all the control gear had bakelite knobs etc.

cheers Darrel

Just in case anyone missed this 🤣🤔😱

 

[hypnogogia]

The sun has caused far more deaths than nuclear energy ever did, just saying.

What to do with all that waste from sunshine?

 

[Aqua sobriquet]

Now I'm actually not seeking to downplay the dangers of radioactive waste but even if you factor in the highest and more questionable estimates of downstream casualties from chernobyl it's still objectively safer than multiple other forms of energy.

That’s lucky, because all your figures are for now. Nuclear waste will be dangerous for the next 10,000 years, how many could die from it in that time?

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

The sun has caused far more deaths than nuclear energy ever did, just saying.

And they say nuclear fusion is safe ......

Cheers Darrel

 

[louis_last]

That’s lucky, because all your figures are for now. Nuclear waste will be dangerous for the next 10,000 years, how many could die from it in that time?

Why don't you tell me? Why you believe anyone will die from it at all, and why and how you imagine that death toll would be greater than from other sources of energy? Also, yes, my figures are "for now" but project them into the future and explain what you imagine would drive such dramatic reversal of those figures that it would totally invert them? How from your perspective is nuclear energy going to suddenly become much more lethal while all the others become much less so?
As I've pointed out this is also a problem only inherent to incredibly outdated reactor designs and where the problem already exists even if we were to entirely abandon nuclear energy today. It's not something that proponents of modern nuclear energy really need to address and we're not responsible for the shortcomings of outdated soviet reactor designs.
I think you would end up in outlandish scenarios like "but if an asteroid hit the deep undergroung storage facility....." in which case we would have much bigger problems. I'm a lot more worried about microplastics than I am nuclear waste.

 

[John q]

What to do with all that waste from sunshine?

One option, which is renewable... we could deploy Forced solar gazing tactics to anybody found guilty of supporting JSO. 😃

 

[simon_the_plant_nerd]

Not sure whether that was meant to be satirical or not

It was satire. 👍🏻 Yous dinnae ken Limmy aye?

 

[Tim Harrison]

@simon_the_plant_nerd. Kinda...
My wife was born in Clydebank. And I kind of learnt to understand my mother in law. She was brought up in the Gorbals. She was Glaswegian through 'n' through 🙂

 

[AlecF]

Isn't it now acknowledged that there was no lasting damage at all to Stonehenge?