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It's the same in Europe. Oil lobbyists infiltrated the gullible greens and convinced them that gas and oil are better than nuclear.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Oil lobbyists infiltrated the gullible greens and convinced them that gas and oil are better than nuclear It’s actually the gas lobbyists. They push an all renewables-no-nukes agenda. Which works in theory. But in practice, there aren’t enough panels and batteries being produced. So the gap is filled with gas. The promise is that infrastructure will be phased out. But Europe has already invested over €1.5tn into new gas infrastructure. Those are 1.5tn reasons not to decommission it. We had a choice between nukes and gas, and the gas lobby convinced us it was a fight between coal (already on its deathbed) and solar panels.
  • foobarian 2y ago
    When you say “tn” do you mean the European trillion or the American one? I.e 10^15 or 10^12
• seper8 2y ago
  Actually exactly the opposite. Green parties convinced people wind and solar would suffice. Now the net can't deal with the peaks and throughs. Here in the NL already one of our biggest tech companies is not opening a new datacenter because of lack of electricity available. We used to laugh at countries not having enough power...
  • maeil 2y ago
    Unbelievable that you're saying this when the last 14 years have seen the same party in power, who throughout that entire period have ran on a platform with little in common with "the greens". It's like as if the Reps had been in power for 14 years straight in the US, and you'd still find a way to blame the Dems for a nation-level issue. Might've wanted to consider upgrading the grid during those 14 years. Not like the need for an energy transition hasn't been known for decades.