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most pollution on my area is a steel refinery larger than my town :'). the air is less healthy than chainsmoking. we have heatpumps and electric everything. costs for civilization is super high, but these major main polluters just get billions given to them for cleaner systems which will never happen.

depending on where you live, its really hard to motivate to take part in generating less polition due to the involved costs and living costs already being too high

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>Delhi’s air pollution equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes

Per day, which for some reason the headline didn’t include. Two packs a day is a pretty terrible baseline. At least it’s not addictive.

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Thanks for catching that, yes, per day is critical to understand the harm. I edited my post.
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So you support nuclear power?
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Solar can be deployed in months, produce immediately. Solar is dirt cheap and continues to get cheaper. 21 - 25% efficiency is normal now and most likely we'll have tandem (silicon + peroskvite) with 45% efficiency. With each doubling of production, solar costs continue to go down. In a decade or two, maybe we'll be able to print solar like paper or textile, or spray paint on any surface. Or grow solar from microorganisms (fastest and cheapest).

A nuclear deployment takes 3 - 5 decades, costs continue to skyrocket, actually needs nuclear scientists to design and run.

Which one do you think is a better choice? If you were an investor, would you put your money on a nuclear plant and wait 3 - 5 decades for returns?

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I support solar. Democratize energy, everyone should have the right to produce and store energy.

1) Plug-in solar and batteries are plug-n-play. This is the first step to teach everyone energy literacy and numeracy.

2) Vertical panels immediately add 3 - 4 hours. Vertical panels have zero real estate cost and no need to build costly and slow transmission infrastructure. Every building in a city can produce energy.

3) EVs to store excess energy during the day and supply power back to the grid later.

1.8 billion vehicles connect 4 billion buildings. Buildings can produce clean energy and EVs can store energy. The lowest hanging fruit is to make sure all new buildings are built to produce, and all new vehicles are EVs. New buildings can be built with vertical panels and rooftop. The easiest thing to do is change building code, thats it. Then, we can deal with the built environment.

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This particular brand of confrontational nuclear “advocacy” does not help nuclear. Please consider stopping it.
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