Environment & Energy

Did you check to see how New York gets our electricity? https://www.nyiso.com/real-time-dashboard



NNadir calls me an anti-Nuke. You think I’m anti-renewable.

I’m pro-survival and that means dealing with reality.

Yes, renewables are now generating more electricity than coal. That’s great, but it doesn’t mean they’ve put coal out of business.


The reality, which NNadir denies is that we will not have an electrical system run purely on nuclear power. The reality, which you don’t like is that it also will not be run solely on variable renewables, and at this point, coal use worldwide has not fallen off a cliff.

I suggest you read the IEA report, Electricity 2026:
IEA (2026), Electricity 2026, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2026, Licence: CC BY 4.0

In particular the section on Supply:
https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2026/supply



IEA (2026), Breakdown of global electricity generation by source, 2019-2030, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/breakdown-of-global-electricity-generation-by-source-2019-2030, Licence: CC BY 4.0

However, the grid is just part of the energy picture. A tremendous amount of energy is used by industry and transportation. Making steel and concrete currently require burning a lot of fossil fuels. We primarily heat our buildings with furnaces which burn fossil fuels. Our farmers depend heavily on synthetic fertilizers which are manufactured using natural gas…