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Dan Franklin's avatar

This article contains many contentions about weaknesses in use of renewables: grid unreliability, higher costs, etc. etc. etc. None of them lead to links supporting these complaints. Where are they?

For an opposing view, let's take Texas ( https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2025/0114 ): "Another hot summer in Texas put the electric grid to the test, but increased capacity from solar and battery storage met the call. By a wide margin, these sources combined have led capacity growth of the ERCOT grid..."

I've seen similar stories elsewhere. I find your unsubstantiated complaints, shall we say, unpersuading :-)

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hbdecatur's avatar

Here Here! If the world had responded to the 1970s energy crisis with safe Nuclear energy, as France has, we would maybe be 25-50 years away from a climate crisis! Obviously, it must be safe! However, saying that ANY level of radiation is unsafe is misleading and wrong. Also, spent fuel must be reprocessed into new fuel (which, by the way, gives you exponentially more fuel). I could go on and on. I am a bleeding heart liberal socialist, but feel that anti-nuclear liberals are partly responsible for the climate crisis, also resulting in the US losing ground to other countries nuclear programs.

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