If you ignore the brownouts and famines, everything was going pretty well. Temp going down, biodiversity up, people weren't too angry at me... hell, even had a space colony.
BTW, has anyone actually gotten nuclear fusion?
If you ignore the brownouts and famines, everything was going pretty well. Temp going down, biodiversity up, people weren't too angry at me... hell, even had a space colony.
BTW, has anyone actually gotten nuclear fusion?
Whatever this site is it puts way too much emphasis on "biodiversity" and seems to have a very negative view of nuclear power which is complete bullshit.
People are as happy as they can be, temps are at +0.9, but whatever the "Earth Liberation Front" is keeps doing terrorist attacks for no reason.
And the concept of "political capital" has always been a bad one.
Also "ban outdoor cats", is that a bad joke?
Edit: going from 50% nuclear to 0% nuclear says it would decrease emissions by 68%. What emissions? Nuclear is clean.
Eh, I think they're pretty generous with nuclear at least in some regards - you never have to confront the storage problem in the game as far as I know. Also, you don't have to actually procure fissible material in the fuel tab, so that probably all gets rolled into the card in the energy tab.
If you look at nuclear power generation today, from fuel procurement, building the plant, upkeep and dismantling one study has arrived at 139 - 190 g CO2/kWh cradle to grave (see at the very end for a graphic with the split). Now, I haven't looked too closely at their methodology or whatever it's just the first I found, but on a basic level it makes sense that you're gonna release some CO2 equivalent in all the surrounding processes/infrastructure of a reactor, at the very least with how we're currently doing it. I don't know how fairly the game implements these emissions exactly (it doesn't give you too detailed of a breakdown) but seeing as it's totally viable to run a 25% nuclear energy mix and win I'd say they're giving it a pretty fair shake.
I even remember someone posting an end screen where their dominant energy gen was nuclear, it's not like the game forces you to go renewable.
Regarding outdoor cats, they are an invasive species that have a significant impact on local bird populations. Cats kill like 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion small mammals per year in the US, the largest cause of death of birds in the US. Being a responsible cat owner means that you don't let the little killing machines outside because they can and will damage the local ecosystem. Cats are associated with the extinction of 33 different species so far.
The ELF is not tied to the general happiness but the happiness of specific parties and generally just show up in every run where you pursue some technological ends, as long as you give the environment some attention they're usually annoying but ultimately harmless.
The outdoor cats thing was a dumb struggle session at the beginning of this site. Wanting to ban them is just dumb.
I'm using the technology to, get this, save the environment (snark for the ELF itself/anyone who would act like that, not you). That's the whole point. Like I said I got the temperature below the target +1 C and was steadily reducing emissions, but still they did a shit ton of terrorist attacks.