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Imagine if we had made nuclear a viable option 2 decades ago. All those greenhouse gases from the United States and China,… Wind and solar are still coming , w
by melling 5y ago
Imagine if we had made nuclear a viable option 2 decades ago. All those greenhouse gases from the United States and China,…
Wind and solar are still coming , waiting for the perfect is the enemy of the good
I bet around 2050 or 2060, we’d wished we’d removed coal from the picture much sooner
- civilized 5y agoI bet the coal and oil execs were grinning like Cheshire Cats while eco-radicals laid waste to the prospects of the US nuclear industry in the 1970s.
- rob_c 5y agoI've always thought it's always interesting to follow the accounting of the likes of greenpeace....
- throw0101a 5y ago> I bet the coal and oil execs were grinning like Cheshire Cats while eco-radicals laid waste to the prospects of the US nuclear industry in the 1970s. Or when Germany shutdown their nuclear plants and ran more coal after Fukushima. * https://www.wired.com/story/germany-rejected-nuclear-power-and-deadly-emissions-spiked/ https://www.wired.com/story/germany-rejected-nuclear-power-a... Gas seems to be planned to fill an upcoming gap: * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/germany-s-looming-power-supply-gap-will-likely-be-filled-by-gas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/germany-s...