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monochromatic | 6 years ago

Or else the boogeyman of global warming will destroy the world?

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organsnyder|6 years ago

The world will be fine. I'm more concerned about the humans and other organisms.

imtringued|6 years ago

Yes, thanks to higher temperatures it has become harder to cool nuclear and coal powerplants.

[0] https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...

onepointsixC|6 years ago

How does this not apply to solar and wind? If anything Nuclear designs can at least build in additional cooling, but you have no way to make weather more consistent, especially in the case of runaway climate change.

londons_explore|6 years ago

This doesn't materially affect the cost-benefit of nuclear.

You just have to build the plants with slightly larger cooling towers and use slightly more cooling water.