⚡ Nuclear is the fastest path to carbon neutral — uranium is being cornered

Chamath energy w=0.55 · n=22 · E35 (2021-06-13) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 1:25:44 SUPPORT

“There is a massive play right now going on in the uranium market. ... So when I cleared all of that bias away and I learned about it, then I'm like, why aren't nuclear reactors everywhere? Because it is the fastest way for us to get to carbon neutral.”

Sacks energy w=0.94 · n=16 · E35 (2021-06-13) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 41:41 OPPOSE

“Nobody wants nuclear. There's a huge NIMBY problem with nuclear, right? Which is who really wants a nuclear power plant in their backyard? I mean, not going to happen. I don't think it's realistic.”

Chamath energy w=0.55 · n=22 · E39 (2021-07-09) · sentiment · strength 3 ▶ 26:11 SUPPORT

“And now you impose it on something like nuclear energy, which is consistently proven to provide an enormously abundant, cheap and clean form of sustainable energy. ... if we have small forms of sustainable, abundant energy that can be basically hyper localized and located where we can do these jobs, the jobs to be done, it's transformational.”

Jason energy w=1.00 · n=17 · E39 (2021-07-09) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 30:44 SUPPORT

“Do we want to deal with high energy prices and brownouts and all kinds of problems and rolling blackouts? Or do we want to put this issue behind us? If we just go on a Manhattan project literally to make new nuclear, we would be, this issue would be behind us and we could focus on something else like education.”

Friedberg energy w=0.78 · n=18 · E39 (2021-07-09) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 23:04 OPPOSE

“Great. That's a 20-year project and you got to build ... I'm not sure it solves our acute problems. It solves long-term problems associated with climate change and energy and security.”

Sacks energy w=0.94 · n=16 · E39 (2021-07-09) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 31:40 OPPOSE

“Mark Andreessen had a good term. He said we're living in a vetocracy, as in the word veto. ... And whether you want to call it NIMBYism or vetocracy, there are just too many people and groups who have the right to say no to anything and block anything important from happening.”

Friedberg energy w=0.78 · n=18 · E56 (2021-11-20) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 1:04:08 SUPPORT

“I know of at least half a dozen nuclear power companies that are in advanced stages of doing first installation design right now. And so, it seems like this is going to be a reality. I think it would be an incredible boom to clean energy in the United States and globally if we can get more of these built. I mean, what was the staff? China is building 150 nuclear power plants? They've commissioned 150 nuclear power plants? I mean, it's a no-brainer that that's what we need in the 21st century. It's the best renewable source, very small footprint, very reliable, can run 24-7.”

Chamath energy w=0.55 · n=22 · E56 (2021-11-20) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 1:02:11 SUPPORT

“every time you protested at, you know, to shut down a nuclear plant, the resulting effect 40 years later was another 100 megatons of CO2 was put into the air. And it just goes to yet again, another example of we virtue signal nuclear reactors and nuclear power. We go and we get them all shut down. It turned out that we ingested or we we put out as a result an enormous amount of more CO2 than had to be put.”

Chamath energy w=0.55 · n=22 · E65 (2022-01-29) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 22:55 SUPPORT

“So at somewhere along the way, nobody took a science class in Germany and figured out that nuclear was both safer and cleaner. Instead, burning fossil fuels is the answer.”

Jason energy w=1.00 · n=17 · E65 (2022-01-29) · sentiment · strength 1 ▶ 23:04 SUPPORT

“And geopolitically wiser to not have a dependency. And after the Fukushima, they went, turned them all off. They accelerated it.”

Friedberg energy w=0.78 · n=18 · E70 (2022-02-24) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 22:46 SUPPORT

“I would immediately deregulate nuclear and make nuclear fission reactors a mainstay of energy production here in the US ... It is estimated that nuclear power production should drop to about four cents, but could be as low as one cent per kilowatt hour if operated at scale with perfect efficiency ... but also where economic advantage lies in investing in nuclear infrastructure ... I love nuclear.”

Chamath energy w=0.55 · n=22 · E70 (2022-02-24) · sentiment · strength 3 ▶ 45:41 OPPOSE

“I think it's never going to happen. ... I think America's America's ability to scale nuclear, I think, is a very difficult proposition. ... But it still leaves the policy and the societal level challenges that I think are very difficult to overcome.”

Jason energy w=1.00 · n=17 · E70 (2022-02-24) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 19:19 SUPPORT

“Well, and also you could have Germany could start turning back on nuclear power plants if they could get their citizens to pick nuclear over war. And that seems like a pretty easy choice.”

Jason energy w=1.00 · n=17 · E71 (2022-03-05) · sentiment · strength 1 ▶ 45:32 SUPPORT

“And the Germans fell for it and turned off nuclear. And now all of a sudden, they're dependent on Russia.”

Chamath energy w=0.55 · n=22 · E72 (2022-03-19) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 25:09 SUPPORT

“our overreliance on Russian hydrocarbons could have been mitigated with nuclear, but we fell for shoddy science and we fell for a bunch of uninformed people who ran this banner of environmental protection ... And those people now have meaningfully less credibility.”