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dunderpust t1_j82ars0 wrote

In 2021, renewable energy was almost 6% of world energy. What prevents it from being 16, 60, or 100? The main challenge now is electrification. Whether the electrons comes from PVs or nuclear plants is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is getting enough electricity. My personal opinion is we would should go full speed ahead on nuclear AND renewables, providing nuclear doesn't delay or stop renewables. As in, the sentiment "oh we don't have to build that wind farm, in 5 years time we will have a nuclear plant up and running" has to die. We will need so much electricity that both the nuclear plant and the wind farm combined will not be enough.

Also, I leave you with this graph why people are not expecting miracles from nuclear but supporting renewables:

https://www.energymonitor.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/UFnm0-power-generation-from-renewables-edged-past-nbsp-nuclear-in-2019-2.png

You may try and convince yourself that exponential curve of wind and solar will break in a year or two, but you'll be more and more alone in that.

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