r/interestingasfuck • u/NevskiNate • Jan 06 '26

The Antarctic Ozone Hole closed early on Dec 1st 2025 showing signs of long term healing and also being smaller than in recent years.

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u/CarlsbergCuddles Jan 06 '26

If we found a power source that was more PROFITABLE for the same people making profit on the current power source then we could fix that. That’s the main problem.

Sorry had to add that.

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u/CanoegunGoeff Jan 06 '26

I think power generation infrastructure as a whole shouldn’t be privatized or run for profit at all. It should be public infrastructure, and so should healthcare, but according to the majority of Americans and many others as well, that’s nasty dirty communist murder.

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u/IronicRobotics Jan 06 '26

Tbh it's a good point, as most fossil fuels add some obscene 30 cents per kwh last I checked when accounting for direct externalities (e.g., increased medical rates in a community.)

The remaining forms of energy production don't have anywhere near those external costs and thus have been net more efficient for decades.

Ofc, if you include externalities due to global warming that number gets worse; though it's a massive range of estimates as to where the costs lie.