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>...Unfortunately, there's no time left for nuclear (fission) France was able to go from nothing to getting almost all of their electricity through nuclear in
by opo 6y ago
>...Unfortunately, there's no time left for nuclear (fission)
France was able to go from nothing to getting almost all of their electricity through nuclear in a couple of decades.
It is possible that we will be able to ramp up grid storage enough that we don't have to rely on natural gas to make up for the intermittent nature of renewables, but there is no guarantee that will happen.
Saying "it is too late" or "there is no time" for other options ignores the fact that we only have a fraction fo the grid storage we would need if we want to eliminate burning natural gas.
>...And the battle for public opinion is lost.
Even with a growing anti-science movement in the US, people are about evenly divided on nuclear power which is about a 5% improvement since 2016.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-public-opinion-evenly-split-on-nuclear https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-public-opinion-ev...