Me saying that you’re right doesn’t make sense? A house built using cement isn’t CO2 neutral. A house built using wood uses less CO2, but it isn’t neutral either. A nuclear reactor won’t be CO2 neutral, even if the fission process or the turbines don’t generate any CO2. A wind turbine by comparison, while it won’t have the same output capacity as a nuclear reactor, would use a lot less CO2 to manufacture and assemble.
Given that my inextant basement wouldn’t be a facility equipped to store or process nuclear waste had it existed, I’d obviously have some reservations. Having lived near such a facility however, and having been involved politically with it, I have no big qualms about it no. Why do you?
Sweden does it right and the Swedes can be proud of themselves.
Reading this as a Swede is kind of funny because we have a lot of criticism internally in this subject. Our electric prices have been wild these past few years, like, bankrupting businesses and people wild.
I remember reading an article about a bakery shutting down because they got an electric bill on like 70k, in addition to all the other operating costs.
I interpreted “right now” in the message as “today”, or “when the post was made.”
Some days are purely renewable. Others aren’t. In the winter when electricity usage goes up it’s not uncommon for us to import fossil fuel electricity from other countries. The green party also suggested powering up natural gas plants as we were shutting down nuclear. Ngas obviously isn’t renewable.
Svenska Kraftnät has a “control room” with graphs and timelines on exports/imports and energy sources.
“Värmekraft” is power produced by burning things, it can be coal, oil, wood fuels, garbage, etc.
“Ospecifierat” (unspecified) includes power produced in facilities with more than one type of source, where you cannot separate what produces what.
That’s because nuclear energy is green. It doesn’t produce any greenhouse gas emissions. You having bought into the fearmongering about nuclear doesn’t change reality.
I legit never understood that one myself. I think it’s a mix of laws that make it infeasible.
Game machines are not allowed to be an establishments main source of income. This I think is targeted at gambling machines, slots and the like, because gambling is heavily regulated by the state, but naturally that also made arcades nigh impossible to run.
I believe there’s also some sort of law about the amount of such machines an establishment may have. Again, to prevent casino type establishments from existing. You can’t really run an arcade hall with two or three machines.
Then a more recent law enforces such machines to also give you a receipt? I dunno I didn’t read too closely, but I suppose machines of that kind don’t tend to have that sort of functionality meaning if you wanted to have an arcade hall here you’d need to custom order the machines.
It’s just not economically feasible.
And the most ridiculous thing is that while there’s not much in the way of physical gambling here, there are so many internet casinos I can’t properly convey how ridiculous it is. Like imagine an incredulous amount and it’s still more than that.
And the government is perfectly okay with that. They’re such incompetent buffoons.
I belive we have really strict gambling laws, one of the reasons we never got arcade halls here. Online casinos and such don’t count though, it seems. It feels like half a dozen pop up each week.
And there’s a lot of alternatives for many different prices. I remember how people used to berate me for being vegetarian while growing up, telling me I’d die and whatnot.