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[mbernstein]

Nuclear power adoption is the largest force to combat climate change.

[Retric]

Historically, hydro has prevented for more CO2 than nuclear by a wide margin. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...

Looking forward Nuclear isn’t moving the needle. Solar grew more in 2023 alone than nuclear has grown since 1995. Worse nuclear can’t ramp up significantly in the next decade simply due to construction bottlenecks. 40 years ago nuclear could have played a larger role, but we wasted that opportunity.

It’s been helpful, but suggesting it’s going to play a larger role anytime soon is seriously wishful thinking at this point.

[porphyra]

I think solar is a lot cheaper than nuclear, even if you factor in battery storage.

[ivewonyoung]

Are you proposing that cars should have nuclear reactors in them?

Teslas run great on nuclear power, unlike fossil fuel ICE cars.

[gamblor956]

Every year Musk personally flies enough in his private jet to undo the emissions savings of over 100,000 EVs...

Remember that every time you get in your Tesla that you're just a carbon offset for a spoiled billionaire.

[enslavedrobot]

Hmmmm average car uses 489 gallons a year. Large private jet uses 500 gallons an hour. There are 9125 hours in a year.

So if Elon lives in a jet that flys 24/7 you're only very wrong. Since that's obviously not the case you're colossally and completely wrong.

Remember that the next time you try to make an argument that Tesla is not an incredible force for decarbonization.

[valval]

As opposed to all the other execs whose companies aren’t a force to combat climate change and still fly their private jets.

But don’t get me wrong, anyone and everyone can fly their private jets if they can afford such things. They will already have generated enough taxes at that point that they’re offsetting thousands or millions of Prius drivers.

[gitaarik]

As I understand, electric cars are more polluting than non-electric, because first of all manufacturing and resources footprint is larger, but also because they are heavier (because of the batteries), the tires wear down much faster, needing more tire replacement, which is so significantly much that their emission free-ness doesn't compensate for it.

Besides, electric vehicles still seem to be very impractical compared to normal cars, because they can't drive very far without needing a lengthy recharge.

So I think the eco-friendliness of electric vehicles is maybe like the full self-driving system: nice promises but no delivery.

[theyinwhy]

That has been falsified by more studies than I can keep track of. And yes, if you charge your electric with electricity produced by oil, the climate effect will be non-optimal.

[djaychela]

Pretty much everything you've said here isn't true. You are just repeating tropes that are fossil fuel industry FUD.