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hunter

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8. New hybrid natural gas / wind / solar / battery power systems are not "cheaper" than nuclear power.
Sun Nov 3, 2024, 08:52 AM
Nov 3

What's worse they reduce carbon emissions by 40% at most, leaving filthy natural gas as the primary power source.

Nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely. Solar and wind will do nothing in the long run to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans dump into earth's atmosphere and oceans.

As an environmentalist I oppose all solar and wind development on all previously undeveloped land and seascapes. We are not going to save the world by trashing it.

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