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5. Nuclear Power Advocates Claim Cheap Renewable Energy Is A Bad Thing

Dr. Joe Romm is Founding Editor of Climate Progress, “the indispensable blog,” as NY Times columnist Tom Friedman describes it.

Jul 28, 2016

Nuclear Power Advocates Claim Cheap Renewable Energy Is A Bad Thing

Nuclear power advocates are trying a new line of attack on solar and wind energy — it’s too darn cheap!

In the real world, however, the unexpectedly rapid drop in the price of cleantech, especially renewable power and batteries, is a doubly miraculous game-changer that is already cutting greenhouse gas emissions globally and dramatically increasing the chances we can avoid catastrophic climate change.

As I detailed on Monday, the New York Times in particular keeps running slanted articles talking up nuclear and talking down renewables — articles that totally miss the forest for the trees. That culminated in a truly absurd piece last week, “How Renewable Energy Is Blowing Climate Change Efforts Off Course,” which is the exact opposite of reality, as Goldman Sachs has detailed in its recent reports on “The Low Carbon Economy.”

This post will focus primarily on the big picture, the forest. I will deal in later posts with a few of the more interesting trees, such as whether, the U.S. should consider give existing nukes some sort of short-term carbon credit so they are not shut down prematurely and replaced by natural gas.

The big picture reality of the clean energy revolution
The big picture reality is this: The world is finally starting to take some serious action to avoid catastrophic climate change, which means first the electric grid will decarbonize, and then the transportation system...

https://thinkprogress.org/nuclear-power-advocates-claim-cheap-renewable-energy-is-a-bad-thing-a20e065d99e6

Nnadir is in the process of learning an economics lesson on adoption of new technologies - and 'the renewable S curve' is not going to help him sell the basement nuclear reactor he's been trying to hawk for 15 years (said failure is the true source of the bitterness and anger he continually displays).