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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·30 days agoIt takes a long time to get a nuclear plant up and running. While it would be great to replace coal plants with nuclear, it wouldn’t help with all of the power being wasted on AI right now.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·30 days agoTime… And a lot of concrete. It takes a long time to see the climate gains from a nuclear reactor. Hell, depending on size it can take a decade or longer to finish curing, and part of curing is releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
It takes a long time to get a nuclear plant up and running. While it would be great to replace coal plants with nuclear, it wouldn’t help with all of the power being wasted on AI right now.
Time…
And a lot of concrete.
It takes a long time to see the climate gains from a nuclear reactor.
Hell, depending on size it can take a decade or longer to finish curing, and part of curing is releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.