sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square241fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down16
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minus-squareInstrument_Data@livellosegreto.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoIt has been fifty years that “oh no they take so long to build, better never start” that by today we would have completely decarbonized energy generation if we started actually building them.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWe could have also built solar collectors in orbit and beamed carbon-free electricity to Earth if we started 50 years ago. Heck, if we funded fusion research properly there’s a good chance we’d have had that by the mid 90s
It has been fifty years that “oh no they take so long to build, better never start” that by today we would have completely decarbonized energy generation if we started actually building them.
We could have also built solar collectors in orbit and beamed carbon-free electricity to Earth if we started 50 years ago.
Heck, if we funded fusion research properly there’s a good chance we’d have had that by the mid 90s