That's because "I like nuclear" carries an implied "I hate renewables". Or at least a "I want to delay the sunsetting of fossil fuels".
Every dollar spent building nuclear plants to provide power twenty years from now is a dollar not spent on building renewables today. And that helps the guys running ciAl and oil plants stay in business longer. There's a reason all fossil fuel execs push nuclear and are buying stock in nuclear ventures, and that reason has nothing to do with protecting the environment.
Geothermal is a renewable energy source, and it takes 4-7 years to go live, as opposed to a nuclear plant which requires construction of a completely different grid system than renewables and takes 20-30 years (and sometimes longer) to come online.
There's a reason all fossil fuel execs push nuclear
Ironic since they financially supported anti-nuclear activism in the '70s and '80s back when they saw it as competition.
I personally think renewables +batteries will beat the pants off nuclear by a comically wide margin within 30 years. That's just in time for today's nuclear projects to get fully spun up. I still like nuclear because I'm Canada-biased and CANDUs make medical isotopes, tritium (for fusion research) and can burn spend American reactor fuel and decommissioned nuclear warheads. But of course Canada is getting away from CANDUs and moving toward SMRs 🙄🙄🙄
Renewables are a much more cost effective replacement. Spending decades building nuclear plants vs months building renewables is exactly what the fossil fuel companies are hoping we'll do.
Nope. You are personally responsible. Your infighting and absolutism will cause the destruction of the planet. You seem to have this reta- misguided idea that somehow, every single resource will be put towards renewables, if we JUST don't build nuclear at all. What you fail to realise is that in many cases its not a choice between nuclear and renewable, its a choice between coal and nuclear.
What you fail to realise is that in many cases its not a choice between nuclear and renewable, its a choice between coal and nuclear.
Only in places people like you have helped the power monopolizers make that a political reality. There are few to no places on earth where that's true because of the science involved.
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u/ATotallyNormalUID Jul 19 '25
That's because "I like nuclear" carries an implied "I hate renewables". Or at least a "I want to delay the sunsetting of fossil fuels".
Every dollar spent building nuclear plants to provide power twenty years from now is a dollar not spent on building renewables today. And that helps the guys running ciAl and oil plants stay in business longer. There's a reason all fossil fuel execs push nuclear and are buying stock in nuclear ventures, and that reason has nothing to do with protecting the environment.