They've been building that thing for like 20 years now, and it still doesn't work.
Hiring French & Russians to produce it using 3rd world workforce was a mistake. A lot of delays came when they couldn't follow Finnish safety requirements.
Nuclear power is such a hustle. They're shilling it hard right now too.
It's only safe & clean sustainable energy. Wind power & solar power are scams.
Coal is dirty as shit. Not only from mining it, but since it contains trace amounts of thorium and uranium, those get released into the air from burning it. Unless you’re going to refine the coal into a clean fuel, or make some giant water bong style filters for the smoke stacks, coal is worse than nuclear and also a finite resource. Once coal is all gone it’s gone, no more gets made unless we wipe out the world and it starts over from scratch. In which case we’re still like 300-450 million years away from having new coal.
Indeed we can make charcoal but charcoal isn’t coal. Switching to a wood based heat system IS doable, with proper forest management and logging, but coal itself it finite. It was generated millions of years ago before bacteria that breaks down and rots the tree down evolved. Trees died and fell and got compacted and nothing broke them down and the pressure and maybe some heat(I wasn’t there at the time, lol) changed the ancient cellulose strands from the wood we know and love into coal.
I’d much rather see nuclear be used in the near future and save coal for later on. Maybe we invent a process that makes it a super battery, maybe we find a combination that results in a super fuel. We won’t be able to do that if we simply burn it all when there’s better options.
Hiring French & Russians to produce it using 3rd world workforce was a mistake. A lot of delays came when they couldn't follow Finnish safety requirements.
It's only safe & clean sustainable energy. Wind power & solar power are scams.
Coal is dirty as shit. Not only from mining it, but since it contains trace amounts of thorium and uranium, those get released into the air from burning it. Unless you’re going to refine the coal into a clean fuel, or make some giant water bong style filters for the smoke stacks, coal is worse than nuclear and also a finite resource. Once coal is all gone it’s gone, no more gets made unless we wipe out the world and it starts over from scratch. In which case we’re still like 300-450 million years away from having new coal.
Pretty sure you can make charcoal. Burning wood has almost the same effect. It however needs more wood for that efficiency.
Indeed we can make charcoal but charcoal isn’t coal. Switching to a wood based heat system IS doable, with proper forest management and logging, but coal itself it finite. It was generated millions of years ago before bacteria that breaks down and rots the tree down evolved. Trees died and fell and got compacted and nothing broke them down and the pressure and maybe some heat(I wasn’t there at the time, lol) changed the ancient cellulose strands from the wood we know and love into coal. I’d much rather see nuclear be used in the near future and save coal for later on. Maybe we invent a process that makes it a super battery, maybe we find a combination that results in a super fuel. We won’t be able to do that if we simply burn it all when there’s better options.