Most people have zero idea of the scale of the problem here.
So? Most people who are concerned about CC don’t want or need expert knowledge, they want politicians to listen to experts.
Enough ordinary people are against nuclear to make it impossible to implement.
Maybe, but we are nowhere near “enough”.
“Plans For New Reactors Worldwide(Updated January 2020)
Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with about 50 reactors under construction.
Most reactors on order or planned are in the Asian region, though there are major plans for new units in Russia.
Significant further capacity is being created by plant upgrading.
Plant lifetime extension programmes are maintaining capacity, particularly in the USA.
Today there are about 450 nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries plus Taiwan, with a combined capacity of about 400 GWe. In 2018 these provided 2563 TWh, over 10% of the world’s electricity.About 50 power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries (see Table below), notably China, India, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.”
I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
One can vote on goals and leave the implementation to experts. People trying to out think experts tends to lead to nonsense like anti vaccing.
If you think the private sector is never slow, lumbering or inefficient, I have news for you.
Your own quote shows the scale required simply to keep up − 450 reactors supplying 10% of today’s load. So napkin math means we need 4500 of them to do all of it (which, of course, only accounts for electrical usage, not fuel usage). See how important understanding exactly how big of a problem scale is as a factor here?
10% is 10%,not nothing. Since renewables are a thing, there is no need for nuclear to be 100% of the solution.
I don’t support the idea that you just blindly hand your responsibility for understanding and resolving issues to anyone else, let alone the state.
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I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
These are not contradictory. States are Soylent Green—they’re made of people! There is literally no person who has a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. More importantly, societies aren’t “run”, they’re … I don’t know. “followed”? “co-dependently-evolved”? Societies pick (or at least tolerate) the “leaders” that exemplify the confusion in goals that the society has.
Experts have fairly narrow focus, and tend to be just as incorrect as the rest of us outside their field (and often, inside, for fields with heavy political/funding influence).
So? Most people who are concerned about CC don’t want or need expert knowledge, they want politicians to listen to experts.
Maybe, but we are nowhere near “enough”.
“Plans For New Reactors Worldwide(Updated January 2020) Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with about 50 reactors under construction. Most reactors on order or planned are in the Asian region, though there are major plans for new units in Russia. Significant further capacity is being created by plant upgrading. Plant lifetime extension programmes are maintaining capacity, particularly in the USA. Today there are about 450 nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries plus Taiwan, with a combined capacity of about 400 GWe. In 2018 these provided 2563 TWh, over 10% of the world’s electricity.About 50 power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries (see Table below), notably China, India, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.”
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx
I don’t support the idea that ordinary people can have a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. For that matter they can’t fix their own cars or bodies.
One can vote on goals and leave the implementation to experts. People trying to out think experts tends to lead to nonsense like anti vaccing.
If you think the private sector is never slow, lumbering or inefficient, I have news for you.
10% is 10%,not nothing. Since renewables are a thing, there is no need for nuclear to be 100% of the solution.
vs
These are not contradictory. States are Soylent Green—they’re made of people! There is literally no person who has a good enough level of understanding of everything it takes to run a society. More importantly, societies aren’t “run”, they’re … I don’t know. “followed”? “co-dependently-evolved”? Societies pick (or at least tolerate) the “leaders” that exemplify the confusion in goals that the society has.
Experts have fairly narrow focus, and tend to be just as incorrect as the rest of us outside their field (and often, inside, for fields with heavy political/funding influence).