> But instead of being so "black and white" and insisting it must be nuclear that powers things It sure is a good thing I didn't say anything of the sort or wo

> But instead of being so "black and white" and insisting it must be nuclear that powers things It sure is a good thing I didn't say anything of the sort or wow I'd be a hypocrite. I am definitely not the person trying to shoehorn the entire earth into one energy mix box in this conversation. I think the answer to this is likely to vary a lot all over the world. Also a lot of the world's population is far enough north that winters produce relatively little solar or wind energy. And those places also tend to be massive energy consumers because it's also very cold. Right now that doesn't show up in electricity stats because of how common in-home gas heating is. In order to decarbonize the northern parts of the world we will need to dramatically increase both electric energy consumption and production, during winter, because heat pumps will almost certainly be replacing gas furnaces.