That's not going to solve climate change is it? It's not even reducing existing fossil fuel installations let alone providing all new energy requirements. Like a real nuclear effort could have.
And "capacity" of course means something very different when it comes to the wind and solar, which makes that 2/3 not as great as it sounds.
No, the anti-nuclear luddites and conspiracy theorists have no credibility. They are dangerous climate deniers who should not be listened to. The amount of damage they have already caused may well be incalculable.
They're building 2 nuke plants worth of solar and 1 plant worth of wind in 2022. In a single year. That'd be about $100B if it was nuclear. Given that it takes about 20 years to build a nuke, that means 60 plants being built simultaneously, total cost $2T. That would never happen.
Who is they? And are you talking about the total generating capacity? 3 nuclear plants per year is laughable compared to what needs to be done. It's barely enough to maintain the greenhouse gas footprint let alone reduce it significantly.
And nuclear would never happen thanks to the anti-nuclear / pro-fossil-fuel "green" lobby. I'm not saying it would, I'm saying it's been killed and along with it the climate by these lunatics.
Big coal is happy though, they're making some astounding profits in the past year or two, wind turbines or no wind turbines.
That's exactly my question. In this magical world where nuclear power regulations are similar to coal power regulations, who is going to spend the tens of trillions of dollars necessary to partially solve the climate change crisis with nuclear plant?
The same people who spent money to provide much of France's electricity with nuclear. The ones who built Japanese and American and Russian and Canadian and Chinese nuclear plants.
The rambling anti-nuclear / pro-carbon rhetoric somehow handwaves about how you can't do that and how renewables will magically solve everything. They were wrong 50 years ago, they were wrong 20 years ago, they're wrong now. Nuclear power still provides as much electricity as wind and solar combined. Today.
Only? Not very long ago that stat was less than a percent, if it was mentioned at all.