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Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year[1]. This is all from fossil fuels. What are the numbers for nuclear? [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinio

• ben_w 3y ago
  Hopefully we all agree that air pollution and fossil fuels are bad, so the comparison should be with each of the various (long list of) renewables.
  • belorn 3y ago
    The current in-place energy plan in Germany and many other countries is to use renewables for when the weather is optimal, and to use fossil fuels in order to balance the grid and to power the nation when the weather is not optimal and demand exceed that of supply. It is also the future energy plan for the majority of this century. New fossil fueled power plants is being built, and existing one is being modernized rather than decommissioned. They view fossil fuels as being good as far as providing a "reserve energy", meaning the energy needed when the weather do not produce enough energy. If we we all agree that air pollution and fossil fuels are bad, then this plan is bad. It is very bad. It so bad that we should not be doing it, and we should definitively not have it as the primary plan for this century. If we agree on this, then the comparison should be between the long list of alternatives where fossil fuels are not involved.