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My timeline just got bombed by very similar posts from various accounts using the hashtags #Sustainability #innovation all promoting the use of nuclear power for AI and data centers run by the tech giants.
It seems like an #astroturfing #greenwashing campaign right here on Mastodon.
Nuclear energy is not sustainable.
I’ll block any account that seeems to be part of this.
These astroturfing greenwashing posts all are minor variations of the same post, but they all use two of these three emojis: 
️
But never 
. That would be too honest and scary.
Also AI, crypto, and data centers are not sustainable. This is clearly some sort of paid PR to greenwash them.
Here are some of the posts. They were all posted (or at least ingested by mas.to) sequentially. Clearly some bot or AI driven accounts all being told to post the same thing. Or real people being shills for big tech/AIcrypto/nuclear power lobbyists.
@neverbeaten interesting… does that mean we’ve ’made it’ somehow?
@neverbeaten yeah, these look like spam and good candidates for #fediblock
@mewbassprr
Interestingly, they’re all on the same server.
Maybe it’s a good idea to defederate from social.freysa.ai.
@neverbeaten @mewbassprr Yes, I muted the server, and a block is a good idea. I suspect these are bots, as they post identical posts, rather than boost each other.
@neverbeaten I’m asking a legitimate question here: Why do you say nuclear energy is not sustainable? It’s far more efficient than solar or wind. I am excited about the recent developments in nuclear fusion which is extremely clean. The only byproducts of fusion are helium and hydrogen.
@housepanther
Fusion isn’t currently viable. It would be far more sustainable than fission reactors if it becomes so.
Fission reactors are, by definition, not sustainable because there’s not a renewable source of fuels for them.
Solar and wind generated electricity cost far less than fission generated electricity. The long term costs of fission are astronomical. It’s the most expensive way electricity is commercially generated today.
The problem today is not getting enough power, it is radiating enough of our waste heat back into space so that we don't cook ourselves.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/
@housepanther @neverbeaten ... and a lot of massively neutron irradiated material from your reactor walls
@neverbeaten Agreed. People seem to forget that uranium comes from the ground, i.e. it’s a fossil fuel. It’s finite, and just like oil and gas the cost of mining and refining will eventually outweigh the sale price. Then what? We never run out of sun and wind…
@Hawaii
Uranium is a star fossil.
@neverbeaten
It's pretty obvious that AI and the data centers are the problem and not a solution to anything.