That's a coal burning power plant.

That's a coal power plant, bud. They emit lots of CO2.

That's apparently Lethabo Power Station:

> Lethabo Power Station in the Free State, South Africa, is a large coal fired power station owned and operated by Eskom.

Bolding mine.

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Does it also measure water vapor from clean energy fission plants?

Oh great, the nanny state going to space to tax you.

Nuclear plants have other towers as well. Hell, the one near my house doesn't even have cooling towers, just a couple thin ones

Wow. That is so much worse than a normal paragraph. Incredible effort, I am never reading that

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I have the perfect solution for such people and it is to write everything in a single extraordinarily long sentence that just doesn't stop when normally you might think some punctuation would make sense but it just keeps on going like the world is about to end in an instant because sometimes all you get is a single thought that contains so many ideas in it that splitting it into more than a single sentence or paragraph would feel unnatural but writing it all out in one giant single mental breath makes sense and as you do that your reader is bound to have a mental collapse of proportions that are enough to make them question reality in a way that ensures they either have to ignore what you say or accept it as their new reality and that is what happens with sentences that just never end as it feels you must be running out of air internally but you don't do that as the human brain is capable of incredible feats of self-deception if motivated properly

The first paragraph is clearer but the title is an unfortunately inaccurate summary by the editor.

> The first-ever satellite designed to detect emitters of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is set to launch to space this year, promising to provide authorities with a tool to police compliance with emission reduction efforts designed to slow down climate change.

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Strange title. Is this satellite going to drop down and make arrests itself?

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Unless there's a laser that can blow up offenders, I'm not clicking the bait...

So the way around the radioactive accident problem is fairly well solved now. A reactor would be assembled and activated on orbit after the parts were carefully shipped to that the components could not easily disintegrate on launch.

Others here have taught me that he urgency here comes out of the undefined acronym, which was "Solar Gravitational Lens." That is a point--the focus of the lens made by the sun--somewhere 3 times farther out than our current farthest spacecraft, the Voyagers. It's taken them almost 50 years to get that far so they'll want to reach that focus ten times faster than our current vehicles, then it has to slow and maneuver around that point.

Yeah I thought we decided against fission rockets so we don’t accidentally spew radioactive material everywhere on the off chance of a failed launch. What is this urgent need that they speak of? Mildly concerning but I’ll just assume the best ig.

Yes, one of the most exciting spacecraft ever was Dawn, which couldn't accelerate faster than a feather falls, but it fired for months and went from Vesta to Ceres... eventually. That was a huge change in velocity.

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China is the only country actually successfully building new nuclear plants. They're just industrialising so fast even that isn't fast enough. Literally the only country that doesn't take 20 years to build a nuclear plant still can't build them fast enough.

China and India most likely. China is building coal plants like crazy.

USA is trying to pave their way for nuclear energy.

Canada is still waiting for unicorn fart energy to happen.