It’s not about the vapor but about the land it’s occupying. It also looks ugly like shit. People will complain bout wind farms destroying the landscape but huge chimneys don’t bother them for some reason.
Aren’t those plants noisy? It’s a industrial installation. Don’t you have constant traffic and noise there? Where I live we don’t have nuclear power plants so I don’t know. We have this type of plants:
I used to live within a certain radius of one, our local school used to stock iodine pills in case of an emergency. Luckily I’m Canadian and we have one of the best nuclear track records full stop so it was never a worry.
Am example of what you’re saying is Michigan City, Indiana. It’s actually a pretty nice little tourist town. I go every year for the Great Lakes Grand Prix. It’s just an excuse to go to the beach and drink some beverages. It has a decent beach (very nice by Great Lakes standards), dunes, a zoo, and a coal and natural gas plant right on the water front… It’s such a cool place as long as you don’t look in the one direction and see that huge eye sore right next to the beach.
We had a coal plant near where I live that’s along the riverfront. Thankfully the government here saw sense and tore the whole thing down and replaced it with the largest solar farm in Canada.
i don’t like nuclear, mostly because of how it creates this highly dangerous waste, that our ancestors will still have trouble with (and thinking about it, is probably mined in a similarly destructive way to coal?), but i got to say that nuclear power plants actually lool fine to me and their vapour is actually quite pretty and scenic imo. ofc i would not want it everywhere, but its fine. i would not base my opinion of nuclear on that.
Coal and natural gas plants can also use the same cooling tower design.
It looks like maybe a coal plant is depicted, on account of the tall smoke stacks and what look like drop chutes for handling solid coal. But the layout doesn’t make sense. What are the smoke stacks coming out of?
Yeah, and? Most crops need more than just a few hours per day of sunlight. Those panels are HUGE. Way bigger than the shadow we’re seeing.
But more to the point, what are they even growing there? It looks like ivy that turns into some indistinct shrub, and then there are flower bushes behind that? Also those panels look like they’re about 20-30cm thick when you compare them to the people vaguely “harvesting” the crops. And I’m pretty sure those posts holding them up are basically railroad rails with no support on the back of the panels.
I think many staple crops are often more prone to drought issues than not getting enough sunlight. Many crops can thrive pretty well with only 4-5 hours of direct sunlight and for the rest of the day just enough general brightness. A bit less direct sunlight can help reduce water usage.
Evolution is going towards semi-transparant solar panels (solar windows) for various use cases, agrivoltaics among them.
It’s also not unfeasible to have a herd of sheep or goats roaming around solar panels.
Tho it’s true it’s a challenge to successfully combine large scale solar and agriculture, I think the future ahead is looking very bright for this combo. Around here (south Germany) it is by now very uncommon to see stables and warehouses without an enormous solar roof, for example…
nuclear is pretty cool.
Memes like these make progressives look like dumbasses.
Look at all that water vapor polluting the air! Omg
Would like to live next to a plant like that?
It’s not about the vapor but about the land it’s occupying. It also looks ugly like shit. People will complain bout wind farms destroying the landscape but huge chimneys don’t bother them for some reason.
Honestly? Yeah. Well if I didn’t already have my house fully off grid.
Being in proximity to a nuclear power source would help ensure minimal power outages compared to fossil fuels.
So if I had to choose? Yes. However, I took things into my own hands and have a 36kW solar system with 100kWh battery bank powering my property.
YMMV
Aren’t those plants noisy? It’s a industrial installation. Don’t you have constant traffic and noise there? Where I live we don’t have nuclear power plants so I don’t know. We have this type of plants:
I would definitely prefer solar or wind farms.
I used to live within a certain radius of one, our local school used to stock iodine pills in case of an emergency. Luckily I’m Canadian and we have one of the best nuclear track records full stop so it was never a worry.
Am example of what you’re saying is Michigan City, Indiana. It’s actually a pretty nice little tourist town. I go every year for the Great Lakes Grand Prix. It’s just an excuse to go to the beach and drink some beverages. It has a decent beach (very nice by Great Lakes standards), dunes, a zoo, and a coal and natural gas plant right on the water front… It’s such a cool place as long as you don’t look in the one direction and see that huge eye sore right next to the beach.
We had a coal plant near where I live that’s along the riverfront. Thankfully the government here saw sense and tore the whole thing down and replaced it with the largest solar farm in Canada.
i don’t like nuclear, mostly because of how it creates this highly dangerous waste, that our ancestors will still have trouble with (and thinking about it, is probably mined in a similarly destructive way to coal?), but i got to say that nuclear power plants actually lool fine to me and their vapour is actually quite pretty and scenic imo. ofc i would not want it everywhere, but its fine. i would not base my opinion of nuclear on that.
Coal and natural gas plants can also use the same cooling tower design.
It looks like maybe a coal plant is depicted, on account of the tall smoke stacks and what look like drop chutes for handling solid coal. But the layout doesn’t make sense. What are the smoke stacks coming out of?
It looks either AI, or a combination of pictures via Photoshop. I’m guessing AI, but hard to know for sure.
I mean, it depicts people planting crops UNDER the solar panels. Out of the sun.
Yeah, this is 100% AI.
It depends on the crop and how they do the layout, but you can absolutely grow some plants under partial shade from panels.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshpearce/2025/11/15/why-farmers-are-shielding-their-crops-with-solar-panels/
The sun moves.
Yeah, and? Most crops need more than just a few hours per day of sunlight. Those panels are HUGE. Way bigger than the shadow we’re seeing.
But more to the point, what are they even growing there? It looks like ivy that turns into some indistinct shrub, and then there are flower bushes behind that? Also those panels look like they’re about 20-30cm thick when you compare them to the people vaguely “harvesting” the crops. And I’m pretty sure those posts holding them up are basically railroad rails with no support on the back of the panels.
Agrivoltaics is the term for combining crops and solar
Reverse image search leads to: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/agrivoltaics-of-solar-power-and-farming-are-a-big-success-on-this-boulder-farm/
Attribution is: “Jack’s Solar Farm – Photo by Werner Slocum: NREL”
Searching that name returns this person, listed as a photographer with National Renewable Energy Laboratory: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werner-slocum-7976503
That’s pretty interesting. Makes more sense when posited as a way to grow northern crops in more mid-latitude areas.
I think many staple crops are often more prone to drought issues than not getting enough sunlight. Many crops can thrive pretty well with only 4-5 hours of direct sunlight and for the rest of the day just enough general brightness. A bit less direct sunlight can help reduce water usage.
Evolution is going towards semi-transparant solar panels (solar windows) for various use cases, agrivoltaics among them.
It’s also not unfeasible to have a herd of sheep or goats roaming around solar panels.
Tho it’s true it’s a challenge to successfully combine large scale solar and agriculture, I think the future ahead is looking very bright for this combo. Around here (south Germany) it is by now very uncommon to see stables and warehouses without an enormous solar roof, for example…
I like those cooling towers now that I know what they do. It’s kind of dope inside there
One could say… they’re pretty cool
I’ll never forgive you for this
Smoke stacks aren’t specific to nuclear - it’s specific to large boiler plants I think.
Nah.