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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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