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kmurph72 t1_ix9wdfc wrote

This is great news, except that we need to figure out how to make large amounts of electricity without natural gas and coal.

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mhornberger t1_ixa5y43 wrote

We already needed to to do that anyway. In either case the share of electricity from low-carbon sources is steadily increasing, driven primarily by renewables. At the moment about 90% of new capacity is just solar and wind. Which are also very fast to deploy. Yes, I know, this is Reddit, so "what about nuclear?" We've heard of it. New nuclear is too expensive and slow to deploy.

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vgf89 t1_ixbzjq5 wrote

Yeah nuclear is great and probably would be the most efficient way to go carbon neutral... But on time and within budget nuclear plant construction is not

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postsshortcomments t1_ixa7bc0 wrote

What do you fine as a "large amount" of electricity when it comes to non-fossil fuels? 15%? 25%?

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Tim_Allosaurus t1_ixc58it wrote

If only we NU a better solution. It would be so nice if the answer was CLEAR

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