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Large coal interests have funded a large, decades long FUD campaign against nuclear via so called "environmental" groups.
by ltbarcly3 4y ago
Large coal interests have funded a large, decades long FUD campaign against nuclear via so called "environmental" groups.
- u_1f4a9 4y agocan you give some examples where this happened? i had a hard time googleing it without knowing what to search for
- weberer 4y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-fossil-fuel-interests-bankrolling-the-anti-nuclear-energy-movement https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f... https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun/ https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun/
- moloch-hai 4y agoCoal interests are nukes' biggest boosters now. They know coal is doomed. But each nuke start guarantees a decade's extension on the coal contract. It furthermore burns capital that could build out several times as much wind and solar generating capacity, that would start displacing all that coal almost immediately. Big coal loves nukes.
- jpgvm 4y agoNope. They love solar and wind because both result in a grid that for the forseeable future requires peaker plants. Usually LNG which they see as their greenwashed future. They hate hydro for the same reason they hate nukes, they are too damn stable, entirely removing the possible need for fossil fuel based plants in base load generation or grid stability. Lets build solar, wind, hydro and nuclear. If you can't build hydro though nukes really are the best alternative and the sooner people come around to that idea the sooner fossil fuels die.
- moloch-hai 4y agoHint: peaker plants do not burn coal. Hydro is moot. There is noplace left to build hydro generation (storage is completely different), so there is no reason to mention it, except to note that an existing reservoir is an excellent place to float a solar farm.
- jpgvm 4y agoYeah they don't burn coal, they are hoping to transition to natural gas and we shouldn't stand for that shit. That is literally the whole point of my comment.
- moloch-hai 4y agoNG will be displaced by cheaper synthetic fuel, in time. Demand for NG will fall off relentlessly as it is displaced by renewables and storage, and finally be pinched off by synthetics generated from renewables' surpluses.
- ltbarcly3 4y agoCitation needed* This is just pure speculation based on nothing.
- moloch-hai 4y agoYou are maybe unaware of exponential growth of renewables deployment, worldwide, with no expectation it will slow? Each installation displaces coal, oil, and NG generation in direct proportion. Probably you should read up a bit.
- ltbarcly3 4y agoI obviously meant the nonsense about synthetic natural gas. Who do you think you are fooling with these lazy debate tactics?