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Luckily, reality is a lot more complex than that, you can't reduce it to that simple choice. Nuclear power is getting a fresh start, but even if a lot of natio
by henrikschroder 17y ago
Luckily, reality is a lot more complex than that, you can't reduce it to that simple choice.
Nuclear power is getting a fresh start, but even if a lot of nations committed to constructing more of them right this instance, we wouldn't see the results of that until decades from now because you would first have to invest in the capability of manufacturing nuclear power plants, because the current capability is very low.
And even if you build out the nuclear capacity, you would still need other power sources, because nuclear power plants yield power constantly, but our power consumption isn't linear, it varies a lot over the day, and you need to adjust production to consumption.
So why bet on a single horse? We need lots of alternatives to complement each other, there's no golden hammer.