~45% owning a home at 25-29 feels super high. I’m in the US at the higher end of that range with relatively well off friends and very few of them own

Kind of doubt we'd have great EVs 30 years ago.

I’m a proponent of nuclear power too. I’m just trying to explain the opposition

Nuclear fallout comes from nuclear detonations. Power plants don't have the capacity to make nuclear detonations.

yes, and the library with the most amount of 💩

Might be different in the states, but in Canada there’s definitely a pretty noticeable improvement in terms of speed. I can get like 400 to 500 mb/s anywhere downtown or at home. Putting that speed to any practical use is a different story, since my data cap is 15 gigs (I’m paying 60 dollars a month, excluding my phones financing).

This is exactly what I am talking about. People like you vastly overestimate the dangers and probability of them.

I like this animated chart. Well done. My only input would be to maybe see how it changed year-by-year if that data exists instead of the endpoints of the 20-year span.

Gotta love axis title, one of my favorite labels for sure

Mmmmm no, you're going nuts, bot.

Well yeah but nuclear fallout is bad

if you find the actual kwh usage, we've been stuck since the 70's, cuz nuke bad

computers are all the rage because its the only tech that can improve within the same power budget, we dont have supersonic electric planes powered by lasers, efficiency be dammed, because again, nuke baddd

energy would be so cheap our standard of living would make the current one look like the 1700's, our freaking sidewalks/streets would be heated in winter

Except when you compare it against coal emissions. Coal kills more people per kilowatt generated by a wide margin.

It’s not that far fetched of a fear

>but most people are far more afraid of nuclear.

Godzilla, after all.

Msm rather cover trump in 2023 than Biden’s s storm of a presidency

I’m actually crazy impressed by how low Reddit is on that list. I have a hard time believing library of the congress has more text than all of Reddit, Twitter, youtube, and Wikipedia combined

They had a bare majority in the Senate, and needed Manchin and Sinema on board with every bill. They were not getting sweeping rights legislation passed.

Yeah I wasn't arguing with you. Just pointing it out for others that this isn't some simple solution we've overlooked. Absolutely agree that if it is an option it's better than fossil fuels.

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The library of Alexandria sheds a tear because of 999,999,990 terrible hours of "content" on YouTube

Yeah, that's what we do. We take standing dead trees, trees that have fallen within the last year, or trees that people are taking out anyway that wouldn't be used for anything.

And I'd never claim it's highly scalable, but if one has the ability, it's a heck of a lot better than just burning nattyG.

But not political sense. Too many NIMBY folks who are scared of nuclear power because they don’t understand it or overestimate the dangers involved. Coal kills more people every year than nuclear, but most people are far more afraid of nuclear.

Unfortunately that's only true if all of the wood comes from trees that fall naturally or felled as part of forest maintenance, and even if that's true on your local scale, it's certainly not scalable.

The UK makes it extremely difficult to build homes. It is probably the most NIMBY country in the world. Landowners have no right to build anything; everything must be approved on a discretionary basis by the local council.