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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Carter had a hugely ambitious plan to build solar power satellites to wean us off both of them. He didn't like nukes and he was a nuclear physicist.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nobody likes nuclear, but it's less bad than terraforming our own planet.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except he was in a position to push nuclear instead of a cockamamie scheme where you need to launch hundreds of rockets that are 10x the size of the Saturn V over the course of years to build solar farms the size of Manhattan.

A man who once had radioactive piss from a nuclear accident chose that over nukes.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Governments are starting to experiment with SSPSes so we'll likely see those start to replace coal too.

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