See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205318 We may need some gas peaker plants to occasionally run in the

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205318 We may need some gas peaker plants to occasionally run in the short-term, but they wouldn't be a significant fraction of energy generation. And the implication of that isn't that renewables leads to more fossil fuel usage than nuclear. You've also go to factor in that we can build out renewables a lot quicker.