bill gates and warren buffet building nuclear reactor in Wyoming

[Space Lynx]

There's no free lunch.

Extreme heat in oceans ‘passed point of no return’ in 2014

Other scientists reported in 2019 that the number of heatwaves affecting the planet’s oceans had increased sharply, killing swathes of sea life like “wildfires that take out huge areas of forest”.

That article was posted today. No free lunch indeed. As Elon Musk said one time, burning fossil fuels is the dumbest human experiment ever done. Though, I wish he used his genius for hyperloop instead of Spacex and Tesla.

The new nuclear reactors from bill gates and warren buffet, combined with hydrogen, needs to happen overnight... sometimes I do wonder if we really are to late and in 50-80 years the world is going to start resetting itself and a few million years after that a new species will come. Who knows such things. It is rather frustrating knowing we had a chance... and were self-aware enough... but still did not follow through as a species due to our baser animal instincts. We should have listened to a lot of the ancient philosophers imo, there is something about virtue ethics and controlling ones desires that makes a lot of sense.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

Even the IPCC's worst case scenarios do not forecast an uninhabitable earth. There is no evidence we are in a "mass extinction event". Anyone who says otherwise is just a participant in the death cult and should proceed to the next plane of existence at their earliest convenience, and not breed in the meantime. The rest of us have work to do. My work is keeping the lights on long enough for others to build the next best power resources with less environmental and land impact. After that, hopefully the stars.

 

[Space Lynx]

Even the IPCC's worst case scenarios do not forecast an uninhabitable earth. There is no evidence we are in a "mass extinction event". Anyone who says otherwise is just a participant in the death cult and should proceed to the next plane of existence at their earliest convenience, and not breed in the meantime. The rest of us have work to do. My work is keeping the lights on long enough for others to build the next best power resources with less environmental and land impact. After that, hopefully the stars.

Let me know when I can buy fresh healthy seafood at my local markets for a decent price then, if you don't see the overfishing going on you don't understand. Killer whales have recently started killing giant humpback whales, a first in history from what I remember reading about it.

Our reliance on a single species of corn for an entire supply chain of our main food source is another major issue for example, top soil running out of proper nutrients in less than 60 years, billions of birds dead from disease/cats/plastics, and the bird poop is needed for its nitrogen content spreading into various ecosystems to act as a fertilizer.

I am sorry but I disagree with you, it may not be mass extinction, but there is mass upheaval incoming, mass migration, mass famines, among other terrible things. There are so many variables it is impossible to calculate one way or the other, this is one thing I am willing to concede, but my hunch is... those studies don't include all the variables... for it is impossible to do so.

 

[claes]

An older article on years of supply of uranium, which covers fuel recycling life extensions at the end: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last/

With respect, and assuming you’re responding to the OECD study I posted, this a) assumes theoretical technologies can be put into practice and b) doesn’t account for the increase in consumption over the past decade.

Unfortunately wind and solar are not likely to scale by taking a "small corner of the US". The ecological impact would be tremendous.

I don’t know much about these things — what ecological impact? Let’s assume we don’t mean literally putting all power sources in one place — are we talking transportation costs and resource extraction, or something else?

Let me know when I can buy fresh healthy seafood at my local markets for a decent price then, if you don't see the overfishing going on you don't understand. Killer whales have recently started killing giant humpback whales, a first in history from what I remember reading about it.

Our reliance on a single species of corn for an entire supply chain of our main food source is another major issue for example, top soil running out of proper nutrients in less than 60 years, billions of birds dead from disease/cats/plastics, and the bird poop is needed for its nitrogen content spreading into various ecosystems to act as a fertilizer.

I am sorry but I disagree with you, it may not be mass extinction, but there is mass upheaval incoming, mass migration, mass famines, among other terrible things. There are so many variables it is impossible to calculate one way or the other, this is one thing I am willing to concede, but my hunch is... those studies don't include all the variables... for it is impossible to do so.

I agree with voodoo that we’ll survive, but also with you in that we’ll be eating kelp and artificial meats. Not that I’m opposed to that, but this is why sociopaths like Musk are also idiots. I’d hate to live in the future they imagine, and can’t afford to anyway.

 

[the54thvoid]

There is no evidence we are in a "mass extinction event".

Unfortunately, there is.

Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction

The ongoing sixth mass extinction may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization, because it is irreversible. Thousands of populations of critically endangered vertebrate animal species have been lost in a century, indicating that the sixth mass extinction is...

www.pnas.org

HOWEVER, this is not linked to climate change in the main, rather, it's our resource culling effect on the ecosystem. It's sort of like plastic pollution (one of the markers for our own anthropocene) where we're at a point (without climate change) we are adversely affecting out planet's ecology.

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Moving forward - please stick to the topic. This is verging away from the Nuclear technology of what the OP is about.

 

[the54thvoid]

Keep it on topic please. Some posts removed. Natrium reactrors, modular Nuclear power, or similar. This is the science forum and I think people expect science.

Of note, and fair warning: the thread's on my shutdown radar.

Edit: Locked (given the four deleted posts bring me back to my previous request to stay on topic). I'll reopen if anyone PM's me with a good reason that is linked to the specific opening post.