> We should do solar, wind, and nuclear; in the meantime we can replace a lot of coal and oil with the much cleaner natural gas. Agree on using nat-gas as a br

> We should do solar, wind, and nuclear; in the meantime we can replace a lot of coal and oil with the much cleaner natural gas. Agree on using nat-gas as a bridge to take down coal (especially as peaker plants to cover for low-wind+low-solar conditions) - oil plants are rare anyway and mostly are used as emergency units or to provide district heating. Hard disagree on nuclear though. All major projects for central power plants have massively ran over time and financial budgets - a NPP needs >>20 years of planning and construction, and an additional 20-30 years of decomission/teardown (more if it ends up fucked over like Fukushima or Chernobyl). So, even if we start new projects now, they're politically untenable outside of the US and Australia who have enough place to just dump NPPs hours away from civilization, and by the time they're done we will either have working nuclear fusion or geothermal+chemical storage of renewable power generated during daytime. Decentralized/small modular NPPs are a complete dream at the moment, there hasn't been even a technology demonstrator yet that shows that it is possible to contain high temperature molten salts. > But a little bit of spicy rocks give off such a ridiculous bounty of 24/7 energy that it's just a no-brainer. The discard from mining said spicy rocks is another very problematic issue. While Canada and Australia at least pay lip service to regulations, that cannot be said at all about countries like Kazakhstan [1], Uzbekistan [2], Russia [3] or even Eastern Germany [4]. Reprocessing fuel has also been fraught with contamination issues like in Sellafield [5] or La Hague [6]. The sooner we get rid of nuclear power, the better. [1] https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/what-are-health-and-environmental-impacts-mining-and-enriching-uranium https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/what-are-health-and-environm... [2] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-up-work-begins-at-Uzbek-legacy-uranium-sites https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-up-work-begins... [3] https://www.rferl.org/a/1081934.html https://www.rferl.org/a/1081934.html [4] https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/uran-erzgebirge-kosten-100.html https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/uran-erzgebirge-kosten-... [5] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-... [6] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/publications/2020/apr/ias-turbulence-radioactive-ruins-la-hague https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/publicat...