There is one issue that all nuclear plants have and that Sabine didn’t address, and that’s the huge consumption of water that all thermal plants have. Building nuclear or any thermal plants near a source of coolant water is necessary, and that can become a major conflict when most populated areas are also near water.
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Sabine H gives us a rant about climate change. Some models give a climate sensitivity of 5 or more degrees C, meaning that we have much less time to get to net zero. If we don’t then parts of the Earth will become uninhabitable even sooner than predicted. This may lead to widespread crop failures,
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Sabine Hossenfelder goes over the history and ways that Moore’s Law may still make progress. Also a few good comments.
This video is a corrected version of the one about EVs from a few weeks earlier. Sabine said, “According to estimates by the non-profit organization American Action Network, by 2035 the costs for the upgrade [of the grid] in the US will reach approximately 2.5 Trillion dollars.” She also talks about overloading transformers and blowing
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Very good video about the chip shortage. There were fires in several plants, natural disasters like the earthquake in Fukushima, and too much dependence on only a few factories. We need to prevent this from happening again.
