mhoyemhoye@cosocial.ca
Nov 3, 2026, 4:24 PM"Carbon capture" is clearly nonsense. Solar is clearly not.
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- mhoyemhoye@cosocial.caNov 3, 2026, 4:43 PM
People championing nuclear are also lost in the weeds of basic math. Nuclear energy costs between $0.0045 and $0.0060 /kWh, but that's only fuel costs; it doesn't include the $5b-$10b best case for a five-year-minimum reactor buildout.
If you want the $0.08 to $0.15 energy solar provides _including_ build costs, you can have huge installations for a few million in months, and home installations for thousands in weeks.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power
https://solarcalculatorcanada.org/solar-panel-cost-canada
https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com/p/cost-analysis-of-a-nuclear-power - mhoyemhoye@cosocial.caNov 3, 2026, 5:16 PM
The reason all of this continues to be interesting to me is that solar power fundamentally changes the power dynamics of the state.
The classic definition of The State is an organization with a monopoly on the use of violence within its borders. A societal dependency on supply chains - the power grid, the oil industry - that can be cut off at will is one of and maybe the foremost levers of that violence, more so than police or the military.
Solar+batteries changes that entire relationship.
saxnotsaxnot@chaos.socialNov 9, 2026, 7:55 PM@mhoye i am championing nuclear but not because it's expensive but because it's emission-free.
I am in no say saying nuclear should be used instead solar, thermal or wind. In fact long-term nuclear should be phased out.
But nuclear is the emission free solution instead of fossil fuels.there really are no opinions here
the engineering facts have been settled since decades and the fossil fuel industry scare mongers about any alternatives- saxnotsaxnot@chaos.socialNov 9, 2026, 7:58 PM
@mhoye "wind turbines cannot work - growian project showed this" ; "nuclear power plants are like nuclear bombs they are dangerous and emit radiation" ; "wind turbines shred birds and emit infrasound" ; "the nuclear waste is a lot more dangerous than the exhaust of coal plants" ; "solar panels are toxic" etc
are all just lies
and it's sad to see people believe this propaganda, especially when the person in question is in favour of decarbonization or otherwise green / educated
- saxnotsaxnot@chaos.socialNov 9, 2026, 8:16 PM
@mhoye coal power plants actually emit a lot of radioactivity
nuclear power plants are build not to