Hey! Dont be such a warmonger with your sensible words!

This is first time i have heard compelling and sensible argument for farenheit.

Opposide for me. I realised i enjoy playing games much more than making them.

But im happy for you that you found a thing you can be passionate about and spend time working on it too.

Firstly. Desert is horrible place for solar panels. High heat makes them work poorly and sand/dust is problematic for the maintanence and cleaning them requires water, that is scarce in the desert.

Coast and offshore are good places for wind farms (alltough we dont fully know the offshore farms effect on the ecosystem and offshore is difficult to build and maintain.) But similary to most things coast is going to have its own set of problems with too high wind speeds and the likely hood of rising sea level.

That all aside im not saying we need to start building hundreds of reactors. Just dont be morons and start to lobby against them untill we have capasity to get rid of the coal, gas and oil plants that are the real and pressing problems right now.

I have no doubt that in the future with combinations of hydro, wind, solar and even to some small capasity thermal power combined with battery tech going foward we can build reliable and fully renewally powered energy grid, but in the mean time we need to lean towards nuclear power.

Moronic desitions like Germany shutting down their nuclear plants, just to notice that they did not have the capacity to replace the energy with green alternatives and then opened plants using fossil fuels to keep up with the demand were naive, stupid and played right in to foreign nations hands.

Modern plants can change their power output 3-5% of their total capacity per minute, but they dont often do drastic adjustments like, because its more efficient to run them on the designed power output and it is something that is fully solvable with battery banks, because the output is steady. Unlike with solar and wind.

One of the Germanys stupidest decitions latelly was to shut down their nuclear plants. It made them use 7% more fossil fuels, it made them dependent on Russian natural gas and some calculations say they could have been producing 70% less of carbon emissions between 2002-2022 if kept running on nuclear.

The exact moment the pipe dream if decentralized energy grid gets any where near working condition ill change my mind. Until then nuclear is the best option.

Like i said. Im not against solar or wind. Im against coal and fossil fuels and we cant get rid of them quick enough if we are naive and wait for solar and wind to grow enough to replace those. Lets get rid of the real pollutors first and then start to replace nuclear with something else.

Dont start to fix the broken window before the fire on the roof is under control.

Wind and solar are great when there is wind and sun, but even with battery storage to even them out, there is always a flux. For example where i live in the last 30 there was 72 hour period when wind power worked only 1% of the max capacity and here is 3 month period when sun is over the horizon less than a hour per day and that time is when the energy consumption is on its highest.

Also climate change is bringing more high wind days when running wind turbines is impossible.

If we want to talk about natural disasters wind and solar power can be influenced by volcano eruptions happening thousands of kilometers away.

At the moment even hydropower is being effected by weather as there has not been enough rain to fill the reserves at the pace energy is needed.

Nuclear energy works no matter the weather and upping or lowering its production is relatively fast, making it really easy to adjust the output to the needed levels. Also the fact that from 100 spend uranium rods you can make 96 new ones

Im not against solar or wind. Im against putting all the eggs in to one basked and building a infrastructure that is dependant on things beyond human control.

I assume you mean three mile island reactor? Chernobyl was soviet fuckup, three mile island meltdown wrote a lot of new safety regulations and fukushima was natural disaster. Every one of these incidents has been studied and every one of them has made lot of new mechanism to avoid similiar accidents to happen in the future.

But nuclear is here right now. Its cleaner than fossil fuels. There are near 440 nuclear plants working perfectly right now. Fukushima meltdown was caused by a tsunami hitting after earthquake, not because climate change. 96% of nuclearwaste is recyclable and the process to recycle waste is becoming cheaper and more efficient to do (there are only few places that do so, because the process is very similiar to enriching uranium and for obvious reasons some countries dont want other countries doing that). Also there are longterm storage facilities made 500m underground in areas where are little to none tectonic movement so we have currently surplus of save storage space for the waste.

What is not responsible, is to opposide one of the best and most stable current method to generate power. At the moment we need first get rid of the current and urgent problems with coal and fossil fuels that do things like:

1. Releasing heavy metals on the sea.
2. Releasing carbon monoxide to atmosphere.
3. Polluting air we breath.
4. And also creating radiactive waste when run (coal plants produce waste containing things like uranium, thorium and mercury)

We cant wait for renevables to catch up to our power needs. We need to cut the worst things now and nuclear power is the best alternative we have right now.

You clearly dont know enough about how pipeline to make good 3d effects goes.

You cant just toss enough money and time to make good CGI scene. The director needs to understand how the effects work and how design the scene with that in mind. There is huge amount of work to make sure the real parts in the scene work with the CGI parts. It needs just as much planning, story boarding and collaborations between the different groubs than any other special effect shot needs. The lighting needs to match, the eye lines of the actors need to match. Any time when there is contact between real things and 3d modeled things it needs to be planned shot by shot to make it work. Even full CGI scenes need to be planned how they stransit in to ot from the real footage.

If you think special effects are just high speed pursuits or stunt men doing wire work, you really are selling the whole VFX industry short.

Dont know. Some things he have said makes me think he likes to walk behind his daughters.

I know this is silly meme post, but somebody here needs to hear that pulling out is not a proper contraception.