Nuclear Engineer reacts to Kurzgesagt 'We WILL Fix Climate Change!'

[VECTR]

The answer is a lot of every clean options. Nuclear power, Solar, Wind, Hydroelectric, Geothermal, Biomass maybe. it is Carbon Neutral, Tidal and Wave Energy, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), Solar Thermal, and Piezoelectric if you want to get really Funky 😁. Piezoelectric materials generate electricity when subjected to mechanical stress, such as vibrations or pressure. This energy can be harvested from various sources, such as foot traffic or vehicle movement.

[pajac]

I love how you said we will fix climate change - yes with nuclear energy.

[yobwan]

@11:45 What would GDP have looked like if they didn't cut emissions? What was the projected growth pre-emissions cut?

[yobwan]

There are a lot of surrounding arguments missed in kurz's video. How much of solar/wind is being subsidized? How much coal is used to produce solar panels, the lithium batteries for energy storage, all the supporting infrastructure? These technologies aren't as cheap or as carbon friendly as we are led to believe. Our current infrastructure can't support the amount of electric vehicles we already have on the road, let alone banning oil powered vehicles sales (Cali). Take Cali for example with all of their "Please don't charge your vehicles at this time." Cali buys as much as 30% of their electricity from out of state, much of which is "dirty" power. It's just not sustainable to think we can cut all of these emissions without doing something like ramping up nuclear power, which is very difficult to do. Thanks .gov.