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  • Compared to fossil fuels I tend to prefer nuclear as well, because even though mining uranium has quite some ecological impact including emitting carbon emissions, running a nuclear power plant doesn’t have carbon emissions and that’s important.
    What worries me is that there are nuclear power plants around the world and despite the first nuclear power plant having been built 70 years ago, not a single ultimate disposal place for the radioactive waste has been found/created.
    Having “cheap” electric energy for 3-4 generations and putting a burden on the next 40,000 generations just does sound like a bad deal to me.
    Until we have more wind and hydro, keeping nuclear running might be a price we have to pay.
    Not being able to dispose of some more (thousands of) tons of radioactive waste is making the problem only quantitatively worse and not qualitatively.



  • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPlease Stop
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    8 months ago

    There’s attempts at having payments with 0 fees, that is, if you don’t involve exchanges or payment service providers, who obviously charge a fee for fiat conversion.
    Using Nano you have 0 fees for the transaction and ideally as little as 0.25% fee at an exchange for fiat conversion.
    It’s not only without fees, it’s very fast (ideallly sub-second confirmation) and eco-friendly (requiring no special hardware, because there is no mining and using very little energy overall).
    What’s lacking is places where you can actually pay for things with Nano, but that’s the classic chicken and egg problem.


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    8 months ago

    Fixing issues like energy consumption, confirmation time, fees?
    Just in case you haven’t heard of Nano, allow me to tell you it’s an attempt at creating a peer-to-peer digital currency with minimal energy consumption, 0 fees, 0 minimum account balance, very fast confirmation (ideally sub-second, sometimes a bit slower) and 0 supply inflation.
    It focuses on doing one thing and doing it well: transferring value efficiently, sustsinably and without middlemen.
    It’s around since 2015 and still kicking, getting better and better with each release, ironing kinks out.
    It might sound too good to be true, but it’s worth a look; make up your own mind.