What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?
Does Europe need to plant more trees in it’s cities?
It appears that Europe does many things right for sustainability and climate change - public transit over cars, recycling, reducing carbon footprint better compared to other parts of the world. Of course all communities can do better at reducing their carbon footprint - Is this America’s fault with their carbon footprint that Europe is suffering? America has their cars, and simply cranks up their Air conditioners when it’s hot.
What else is there to do? I thought China had success improving their renewable energy output, even though they are still polluters, is it the actions of China and the USA causing misery in Europe? How do we help Europeans suffering and prevent this from happening again?
So we need to find a perfect site, of which there aren’t many, with some miraculously unbothered or even welcoming citizens and then built a facility to reinforce the natural defenses and keep our fingers crossed that nothing unforeseen happens? Got it.
Germany decided to phase out nuclear power plants and still hasn’t found a final resting place for all the waste. Because nobody wants it in their backyard. I think it’s not a easy as you think.
Fukushima Dai-ichi is next to the ocean and still couldn’t keep the cooling chain up. They said 30m waves wouldn’t happen. They thought they thought of everything. These risk assessments are too hubristic and the consequences when they’re wrong too catastrophic. Climate change will bring more torrential rain on arid soil. More landslides. Droughts bring more fires. What we thought was a given in the past may very quickly turn out to be ephemeral. This river won’t stop and then somebody upstream builds a dam. Or a surprise lahar happens. Couldn’t happen like that 30m tsunami, right? We thought a big sarcophagus around a blown up reactor would give us peace of mind and then some asshole started a war or attrition in the area. You. Cannot. Plan. For. Everything.
Stop gap means you can still use it. I’m not in favor but I’ve repeatedly admitted it’s better than fossil energy generation. I’d just rather we get out of it as fast as possible. Why don’t we take the time and energy of finding these new, fabled, riskless disposal site with the kind people who dgaf, built out extra defenses, label it in such a way that future inhabitants don’t unearth it and get sick, and just cover everything in solar panels? Until we have better batteries you’re still allowed to split atoms to fill gaps renewables leave because god forbid we tolerate a brownout to slow this climate crisis! I’m not in favor of building new gas power plants like they’re doing to fuel this so-called-AI psychosis. Split the atom if you cannot do something better. But really, do better.
If you want to shoot back one more time, I’ll read it but probably won’t reply;)