IMHO I do not think nuclear will save us from climate change - it takes too long to get going to be effective - but this is going to really agitate some chud/nerd brains worms
geez - didn’t mean to start a nuclear energy struggle session here
the simple reality is that nuclear could have been a useful stop gap if we had taken climate change seriously in the 70s-80s
that didn’t happen, so we really can’t avoid climate change at this point, only tamp down the bounds of how much it happens
there’s going to be loads of climate disasters for the foreseeable future, and developing nuclear energy in that context (even if somehow we could ramp it via ‘deregulation’ 🙄 ) is asking for even more cataclysmic consequences during these events
other renewables don’t really have this built-in risk factor and are actually quite resilient due to being more decentralized
China, the bleeding edge of nuclear energy research based on this news, has more Wind power than nuclear. Wind and Solar are growing y-o-y at 15%+ while nuclear only 5% … in China.
So if China can figure it out safely and effectively … sure that’s awesome, but we have to be serious about where we are today.
https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2020-electricity-other-energy-statistics-preliminary/
