This attitude is about a decade out of date. It made sense around 2010 when wind and solar weren’t widely deployed and cost more than nuclear per megawatt hour. Now we have more wind and solar deployed than nuclear, and they’re significantly cheaper and faster to construct and make better economic sense than nuclear.
I hear this point all the time, but it’s simply not true. The total power that humanity consumes could perhaps eventually be generated with wind and solar, but they don’t generate on demand, scalable power to provide the actual base load needed.
Don’t get me wrong, I think every new building (and probably the old ones too) should have solar panels, but that doesn’t negate the need to move the base power generation to nuclear from coal and oil.
This attitude is about a decade out of date. It made sense around 2010 when wind and solar weren’t widely deployed and cost more than nuclear per megawatt hour. Now we have more wind and solar deployed than nuclear, and they’re significantly cheaper and faster to construct and make better economic sense than nuclear.
I hear this point all the time, but it’s simply not true. The total power that humanity consumes could perhaps eventually be generated with wind and solar, but they don’t generate on demand, scalable power to provide the actual base load needed.
Don’t get me wrong, I think every new building (and probably the old ones too) should have solar panels, but that doesn’t negate the need to move the base power generation to nuclear from coal and oil.