People think of renewable and only ever think about Wind and Solar but there are others.

There’s Wave Power

[https://youtu.be/jahAum3zLsY](https://youtu.be/jahAum3zLsY)

[https://youtu.be/UUlA5WKDiww](https://youtu.be/UUlA5WKDiww)

And Tidal Power

[https://youtu.be/gxR\_ktz18Q0](https://youtu.be/gxR_ktz18Q0)

[https://youtu.be/VkTRcTyDSyk](https://youtu.be/VkTRcTyDSyk)

These two can be part of the solution a long with Hydro electrical, Solar and Wind, There is even Canal lock variable speed hydro power and there are probably more I’m not even aware of. I just think it’s obvious when we live on an island.

*I’m gonna be down voted to fuck for this but sure fuck it.*

It seems there is a lot of propaganda in favour of Nuclear Power out there. It just sounds a lot like and reminds me so much of Oil companies all over again and that we’d just be swapping one mega corporation monopolising energy for another.

When we have all the natural resources around us already we can utilise. We don’t have to produce anything just take what we need once the infrastructure is there.

I mean no matter how safe they say Nuclear is, It’s not really when accidents can and do happen and no one anywhere can guarantee they won’t happen. Plus the waste from it will be around and toxic forever, It just doesn’t seem like a solution unless they make Fusion a reality. Fusion really is the answer but we have to wait for that to be perfected. Whatever about building a Nuclear power plant here or a few smaller ones, I personally would not like that. Especially with leaving issues for future people to deal with behind us and like I said no guarantee there won’t be accidents. Okay even setting it up so we get Nuclear Power from Other Countries is fine (does this happen already I’m not sure) While we develop all the resources from the environment around us. That seems more prudent to me then building Nuclear here.

One day in the future that nuclear waste will be an issue for someone to deal with and who knows how far off that day would be [For Example](https://youtu.be/ZwY2E0hjGuU). It just seems like kicking the can down the road just like what Oil Companies have been doing for 40 years now and all the plastic waste we are dealing with now. It seems like something we should be getting away from the producing of waste that doesn’t go away, I thought we would have learned that by now, this waste is also toxic as hell. A lot of people don’t trust Irish government to get things right why trust that this would be done properly either…

It seems like an easy solution that they want us to believe in and the people pushing it don’t want to talk about the hard consequences from it. Decommissioning if we ever wanted to won’t be easy either.We already have everything we need around us for free and I think we as humans can come up with better ways of utilising them all, we are kind of brilliant when we want to be like when we split the Atom.

12 comments

  1. You think we can handle nuclear power when we can’t even get a childers hospital built.

    The thing will go tits up and we’ll won’t have the reaction time or power to fix it like the Japanese has done with Fukushima.

  3. Your actually are speaking a lot of sense so ignore any down votes cause your right

    Yes nuclear is a lot less carbon but the safety issue and waste issue is a problem that can’t be ignored – it’s only kicking the can down the road for another generation to deal with

    The sun is a nuclear reactor in itself , we can harness more than enough energy from it for the whole planet right where it is via solar energy instead of building nuclear power plants here

    It does have genuine scientific research purposes for many different science fields of study – but large scale ones aren’t needed for electricity generation, all the other renewable sources you already mentioned are more than enough to power this planet

  6. Not an expert by any means, but the amount of waste generated over a person’s lifetime would fit in a coke can. It’s pretty manageable.

    You can never rule out accidents, but modern reactors are far safer than older ones, and they were rare to begin with.

    It is safer to avoid, unless you consider that by not using nuclear we are slowing the transition away from fossil fuels. The effects of this are already visible, and a slower transition will make them worse. I believe by not using nuclear we are committing to using more coal oil and gas, which will have terrible consequences

  8. If an accident does happen you need the resources of a big country to deal with it. Agreed.

    On the other hand, we need a bridge to future power sources (fusion the best candidate). Renewables are fine, but what do we do for base load? Either we buy in fossil fuels from despots, or we (Europe that is) generate our own power.

    Personally I think the UK, France, Germany etc. should be building nuclear, and helping to supply base load for other countries. Countries like Ireland should be making use of our massive renewable resource, and supplying surplus power to the European grid. We should have multiple very high capacity energy interconnectors.

  9. Wave and tidal are still experimental. They’re still very much unproven.

    Most countries have tidal coastlines. If wave and tidal were viable then these countries would be harnessing it on a vast scale. The fact that they’re not says a lot about the limited potential of these energy sources.

  11. Nuclear is one of the safest there is, most of the accidents people bring up aren’t the fault of nuclear power itself( namely Chernobyl and Fukushima) and the amount of people it has saved is more than that have died
    Accidents can happen with any type of power

  12. Only delusional people talk about nuclear on the island. Sure you can’t get planning for a cabin.

    Tidal and wave are gimmicks.

    Wind and battery are already the solution and they’re here right now.

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