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@Mr_Teatime @drq @loonycyborg @gretathunberg

I have not driven any of these so can't compare, but the emission standards were significantly raised since then (we're now at EURO6), so things like particulate matter or CO2 emissions *did* improve. You also have a whole range of small town cars today like Fiat 500, Smart using up to 4 l/100km

@Mr_Teatime @drq @gretathunberg

People are protesting against on-shore wind turbines in Germany, Norway, France and other countries for very practical reasons. They are huge, noisy and kill birds. In Norway they caused whole migration of reindeer populations due to noise.

@Mr_Teatime @drq @gretathunberg

> wind turbines look a lot better than nuclear power stations

Sorry, but nuclear power plant does not "look like a nuclear power plant'. It just looks like "a plant". I was driving many times by Hinkley Point before I realized *it is* Hinkley Point.

I can see beauty in one or two wind turbines as they look quite majestic, but if you have a hundred of them, this is just devastating the landscape, not to mention birds and bats.

@Mr_Teatime @drq @gretathunberg

I agree, this fencing in the UK is totally absurd aspect of living here.

@Mr_Teatime @loonycyborg @gretathunberg @drq @loweel

These are called "load following nuclear power plant" and this is an exact technical description for an older one (40 min) but the principle is the same

https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclear-power/reactor-physics/reactor-operation/normal-operation-reactor-control/load-following-power-plant/

@Mr_Teatime @loonycyborg @gretathunberg @drq

We don't know yet how to build any of these on industrial scale. We have a number of research tokamaks (also Russian word BTW) running plasma like ST-40 in UK (check on YouTube) and ITER is going "first plasma" in 2025 but this is still part of research. We're now a decade away from first production fusion reactor. Pretty much the same for power-to-gas and hydrogen.

@Mr_Teatime @drq @loonycyborg @gretathunberg

> but it's too humble, and you're not supposed to be humble

This is 100% marketing because "they're not selling cars, they're selling visions" 😂 No, really, this is how this bullshit works. It's not a cause or somebody controlling your mind, it's that the whole "my car/house/boat/phone is bigger" dick contest is still very important to many people and I suppose always will be.

*You* however don't have to participate, just buy what you need.

@Mr_Teatime @drq @loonycyborg @gretathunberg

No, this is a misrepresentation. I don't know how much fuel VW Polo 2003 used (I was driving a Gaz-69 from 1964 back then) but today you *can* certainly buy cars that use as little as 3-4 l/100km or even a fully electric one. Tesla is bloody expensive but for town driving there's Nissan Leaf and quite a lot of others. I did consider it but then I go to mountains often and... I couldn't, so I ended up with hybrid Toyota Auris (4-5 l/100km).

@Mr_Teatime @drq @loonycyborg @gretathunberg

> Drive the biggest, fastest car, for example

I wouldn't generalize. In the US, in less perceptive and more rich parts of the society, maybe.

In EU fuel efficiency is an important factor because fuel is bloody expensive. Adequate size is also important, because parking space is limited.

This part is all about creating the right fiscal drivers for people. If fuel is too cheap then hell yeah, why even bother?

@Mr_Teatime @drq @gretathunberg

I have already replied to this here
https://social.privacytools.io/@kravietz/104207753287940762

@drq @Mr_Teatime @gretathunberg

There's a lot of awesome designs today, just today I was looking at PRISM (sodium).

https://nuclear.gepower.com/content/dam/gepower-nuclear/global/en_US/documents/product-fact-sheets/GE%20Hitachi%20PRISM%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

Also Russian BN-800.

@Mr_Teatime @loonycyborg @gretathunberg @drq

What Greenpeace said 10 years ago was "oh let's first close all nuclear and then just jump on wind and solar, and in 10 years we'll have storage and stuff". We don't.

What they're saying now is "oh, let's close the remaining nuclear and, you know, temporarily, build more gas plants as we wait for storage and stuff".

Unfortunately, this is opposite of decarbonization.