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So... my point still stands even without nuclear?

• lazide 3y ago
  I can’t tell what your point is, frankly. That everything is fine until it isn’t, then we’re boned? Or that it will never go wrong, unless we have ‘bigger problems’? (Which are what exactly? alien invasion?) Lack of power either way certainly won’t help! If by design nuclear is offline, fossil fuels are offline, and battery capacity (or other storage) is insufficient for known (but infrequent) weather events, then we’re designing an inevitable and destructive catastrophe as we have no Plan B for when realtime production is insufficient. And that will happen some day, regardless of how much capacity we build. It’s currently the norm on many days. One that will kill a lot of people, especially the physically weaker ones, and be very destructive economically. One that will also play out randomly based on weather, and for which we’ll have no real Plan B. Being flippant about it seems rather macabre.