California mandates big increase in zero-emission trucks

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. You count the capital warming costs of producing batteries but do not count capital costs of nuclear

How convenient for your thesis.

Nuclear capital global warming costs are immense. All the materials for building the plants have to be mined, refined, fabricated, transported, and installed.

Plus the capital global warming costs of mining the fuel, refining it, producing fuel rods, transporting it safely with high security.

Then there are also the the ongoing maintenance global warming costs of a nuclear plant, also very high.

Plus the capital global warming costs of decommissioning, safing, and destruction.

And ... the capital global warming costs of securing, sealing, transporting safely, entombing, and maintaining a nuclear waste facility.

... without getting into the radioactive pollution legacy of the whole enterprise.

Yes, wind farms do have capital costs to manufacture, build, and maintain, but nothing on the scale of nuclear power.