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0 pointsjibe4y ago0 comments

It isn’t really NIMBYism to oppose remote desert solar plants, it is just people who care, perhaps without fully weighing cost/benefit, about any negative effect on nature.

There is a rational case that the huge footprint of solar and wind ends up doing more damage than more compact nuclear or natural gas plants. I suspect most of those opposing solar also oppose nuclear and gas.

I’d call it Nothing Is Good Enough Syndrome instead of NIMBY.

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Teknoman1174y ago

> I’d call it Nothing Is Good Enough Syndrome instead of NIMBY.

Definitely. Problem for us is that while more net-zero projects are being constructed than ever before, increased demand for energy has outpaced it, so we're ending up with more "dirty" energy capacity being added, not to mention the infuriating trend of decommissioning nuclear plants and replacing them with gas turbines.

We need to be building plants based on whatever net-zero technologies we know how to build. If that means more nuclear fission plants in the short term, whatever. Yeah I get that radioactive waste is a problem, but it's way easier to store the waste safely than it is to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. If something better comes about along the way, switch to building that when it comes. But don't just twiddle your thumbs and wait for it.

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0 pointsjibe4y ago0 comments

It isn’t really NIMBYism to oppose remote desert solar plants, it is just people who care, perhaps without fully weighing cost/benefit, about any negative effect on nature.

I’d call it Nothing Is Good Enough Syndrome instead of NIMBY.

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Teknoman1174y ago

> I’d call it Nothing Is Good Enough Syndrome instead of NIMBY.

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