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Finishline42

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3. And yet last year Renewable energy sources outproduced nuclear in the US.

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2022, 08:44 PM

Jun 2022

20.1% to 18.9%.

And every month more renewable energy producers come online.

How many years before the 2 reactors at Vogtle start producing?

The key part of renewables is that you don't pay for fuel. You don't have to mine it, you don't have to process it, you don't have to transport it, you don't have to deal with the waste after you use the fuel.

How long will we be dealing with spent fuel rods? You know, those are what caused the explosions at Fukushima.

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Why call it "clean energy" given the statement of the problem? [View all] NNadir Jun 2022 OP

gee maybe we can put windmills at chernobyl. that site is useless otherwise for some msongs Jun 2022 #1

One could, alternatively, open a science book. NNadir Jun 2022 #2

And yet last year Renewable energy sources outproduced nuclear in the US. Finishline42 Jun 2022 #3

Wind and solar, or are our anti-nukes including the biofuels that trashed the Mississippi delta... NNadir Jun 2022 #4

So all dams are abhorrent in your view? Finishline42 Jun 2022 #5

Oh Geeze. The rivers are dying across the world. One could open a fucking news website or... NNadir Jun 2022 #6