Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
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Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
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#2Relevant: "Germany's 66.5 GW of installed wind is only producing as much as the 3 reactors that turned off last night used to produce." https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396
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#3and is a way to significantly reduce dependence on fundamentally authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela, etc.
One of the reasons France is like 75% nuclear generation was response to arab oil crisis in 70ies
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#4The authors profile is even more hilarious than the article: https://nationalinterest.org/profile/todd-royal
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#5The authors profile is even more hilarious than the article: https://nationalinterest.org/profile/todd-royal
It looks like he keeps writing the same article over and over again.
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#6It would be, it not for the realities of dealing with human politicking.
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#7Renewables are cheap and far less risk-prone. Not going all in on renewables is a footgun for industrial societies.
Re: Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
#8Renewables are cheap and far less risk-prone. Not going all in on renewables is a footgun for industrial societies.
We need to to both, at least until we develop economical energy storage at appropriate scale. That may not ever happen.
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#9The authors profile is even more hilarious than the article: https://nationalinterest.org/profile/todd-royal
Nuclear power is the way. If you have something to refute from the article, please do so. Otherwise I'll just lump you in with the rest of the green-party fanatics who think solar and wind will solve our energy needs.
Re: Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
#10Renewables are cheap and far less risk-prone. Not going all in on renewables is a footgun for industrial societies.
renewables are not cheap when you factor in decommissioning which nuclear power does. FTFA: "The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that old solar panel disposal to meet 2050 Paris Accords 'will more than double the tonnage of all of today’s global plastic waste.'"