Emerging AI Will Crush Renewable Energy

Fission power already has an excellent safety record outside the former Soviet bloc.

There is no credible empirical evidence -- none -- that consuming seafood from the Pacific Ocean is associated with greater exposure to radioactive isotopes or a greater cancer risk than any other seafood.

 

I know it's tiresome when people repeat themselves, but in my Post #81, I did write, "Nuclear power plants have the potential be our 'salvation', I suppose -- but they should never be built anywhere even remotely near earthquake faults! Surely Fukushima taught us at least that much...."

The hyperliberal-Left has already declared the death sentence for coal-fired energy plants (even those with electrostatic scrubbers), so, it seems inevitable that for the foreseeable future, nuclear power plants may be the only way we can have the energy we so badly need -- and not dismantle society in a wretched, impoverished chaos. But I thought what I was being accused of was in not being 'welcoming' to new technologies... nothing could be further from the truth.

The caveat I suggested is that we not build nuclear power plants anywhere near identified earthquake zones, or in close proximity to locations where tsunamis can occur. Is that asking too much? Evidently so....

 

when they are built next to the rich, we will know they are safe

 

We live in an upscale gated community. Nuclear power plant is 25 miles away.

 

is that a poorer town 25 miles away?

 

There are two there. They look like Hallmark movie settings.

 

There is a few in the USA

https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/index.html

 

Surry and Smlthfield, VA.

 

Beautiful part of the state, and close to Williamsburg which I have enjoyed visiting so much. Also, because it is in a part of the state that is not on or right next to earthquake faults, it is probably a much better place to locate a nuclear power plant than anywhere in Japan....

Yes, there are some 'wigglers' out to your northwest, up close to the "Piedmont" region of the Appalachian foothills, but not many of those were strong enough even to be felt, except for a 'largish' one (ML5.8 ) in 2011. That quake is said to have been the biggest one in Virginia history, going back to 1897.

 

We live in Williamsburg.

 

AI is coming.
Reality Forces Reason into Power Choices
Gordon J. Fulks
Amazon executives realized their very profitable data centers would fail if they kept posturing with renewable energy. . . .

 

On a recurring side note we had another power outage here in Rio Vista CA on a sunny relatively calm day with a temperature of ~ 50F. It’s gotten so bad that there is a constant series of posts on Nextdoor with a PG&E phone number. This could be some sort of local problem but nevertheless shows a lack of PG&E resources to fix the problem.

 

Growth has consequences.
Green Energy Companies, Eco Activists Cry Foul Following Grid Operator’s Bid to Improve Energy Reliability
Owen Klinsky
The initiative, entitled the “Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI): Interim Accelerated Interconnection Process,” would allow up to 50 new generation projects to be connected to the grid alongside a slew of…

 

Another example of AI crushing renewable energy.
Facebook Commissions a 2GW Fossil Fuel Powered Data Center
Eric Worrall
Wasn’t there this issue, climate something, which used to be important to these people?

 

So it goes.
Meta Turns to Nuclear Energy for Its AI Ambitions
Justine Calma, The Verge