• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      It’s relevant because the less-resource-efficient oil industry has lobbied to make nuclear power artificially inefficient so that their industry can continue to exist.

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        I don’t think anyone is arguing for the oil industry.

        Even if nuclear power plant byproducts were re-used at 100%, this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.

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          Solar and wind are nuclear powered. It is just very inefficiently being collected from the massive inefficient fusion reactor in the sky.

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          this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.

          Maybe true only at small scale.