Pickering Nuclear plant needs to be 'un-retired' if Ontario hopes to meet zero carbon goals

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2. Well, yes, given that it took half a century of cheering for solar and wind to get to 1/3 of what...

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...the annual amount of energy that nuclear energy started producing when new construction was stopped by appeals to fear and ignorance with a huge dollop of selective attention.




Source: IEA World Energy Outlook, 2021, page 294, Table A1A

Despite this data, compiled for more than 3 decades, we still hear nonsense that solar and wind are quick to build. It's true they're quick to industrialize huge tracts of land that would otherwise be, in many cases, wild, but they are useless at addressing climate change. They're really lipstick on the fossil fuel pig, a big lie people tell themselves.

We don't really need "other" no carbon resources beyond nuclear, and the claim that we do is rapidly being shown to be absurd by the fact that the planet is in flames, while a vicious thug like Putin holds Europe (and the world really) hostage.