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To be fair, if we leaned in on nuclear we'd be oil free. I'd much rather deal with highly concentrated nuclear waste than CO2 & Methane emissions

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Maybe if we had leaned in on nuclear 40-50 years ago. (Even then, Uranium does not grow on trees). But right now, that's not a viable option for the next thirty years. Industrial and Regulatory challenges are impossible to overcome in the timeframe that's needed.

The USGS has identified US thorium reserves that could meet the WORLD's energy for the next 138 years. I hope in 200 years when or if we run out of nuclear energy that we've managed to find alternative energy sources or leverage space mining.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1336/pdf/C1336.pdf

Another reference for thorium salt reactors: https://www.thmsr.com/en/the-thorium-molten-salt-reactor/

> To be fair, if we leaned in on nuclear we'd be oil free

no one knows that -- you think that Exxon and crew are ready to sit down ? They fired their Dutch CEO for trying to make the transition almost twenty years ago IIR

As others in this thread say -- this change reveals the struggles between giants, not the quarrels of simple people in media that happens daily

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