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Their fusion and fission work is very impressive,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said of China’s nuclear innovation efforts. The country is investing more in fusion “than the rest of the world put together, times two

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1217·
    1 day ago

    Bill, stop trying to make nuclear happen. It’s not unlimited free energy. It’s not going to greenwash AI and besides AI is not going to fix the world.

    Renewables are here to stay and solar is as close as we will get to ‘free’ energy.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      141·
      23 hours ago

      Bill, stop trying to make nuclear happen.

      Why tho?

      Renewables are here to stay and solar is as close as we will get to ‘free’ energy.

      Why not both?

    • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
      67·
      24 hours ago

      You are going to make a lot of people influenced by the nuclear propaganda lobby very angry. Didn’t you know Germany had to increase their fossil fuel consumption by 1,000,000% after they stopped nuclear power? /s

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        102·
        23 hours ago

        Lmao what the heck is a nuclear propaganda lobby?

        Also, by stopping nuclear power Germany had to increase their carbon emissions by ~400% while also spending more than half a trillion euros so… uh… yeah.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
            43·
            23 hours ago

            I did, still not sure why this is supposed to be a problem beyond a general money in politics thing. “Nuclear companies do PR” isn’t really a surprising statement.

            • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
              55·
              23 hours ago

              “People falling for PR companies doing” might make more sense. Internet people are so uncritical of nuclear power, it is almost comical.