Do you think humans are helping cause Climate change?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Lafiel said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Lafiel said:

bouzane said:

I don't know who brought up the Democrats but it is true that they have done very little to address the issue. I can also agree with nuclear power being the most worthwhile solution, the opposition to nuclear power is disheartening. Fun fact, nuclear power adds less radioactive contamination to the atmosphere than coal (which is by far the biggest contributor of green house gases as well).

the problem with nuclear power is that we have absolutely _NO_ way to deal with the nuclear wastes, we just create more and more shit for future generations to deal with

We should try to develop ASAP reactors able to "burn" nuclear wastes too.

that was the original thought behind starting to use that form of energy and just storing all the wastes  -  hoping that in the future we might be able to use the stuff as resources, but after 40-50 years of research in that area we still haven't come up with anything worthwhile on that front

there is very little energy to get from the wastes, but they need a ton of security measures to handle, so it's very very expensive to deal with them .. the corporations that build nuclear plants should be responsible for _all_ the costs the wastes create, but atleast here in germany I know they aren't, they just pay ~1/8th of the costs

Well, as others pointed out, thorium based reactors are a good start to at least avoid worsening the problem, but let's also consider that thanks to the increased computing power available, all the researches that are intensive in calculations and simulations now proceed a lot faster than in the past. But yes, as until a solution is found we can't be sure it will ever be, better stop producing long-lasting wastes, new fission reactors, waiting for fusion ones, should be only thorium ones.