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hunter

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14. I'm an unapologetic advocate for nuclear power these days.
Wed Aug 23, 2023, 12:45 PM
Aug 2023

What's the energy density of uranium compared to oil?

Oil isn't even in the same ballpark.

Nuclear power directly threatens the fossil fuel industry. It's the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely.

We ought to be building nuclear power plants as quickly as we can, including power plants capable of synthesizing carbon-neutral liquid fuels from oceanic or atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It's not a new idea. France built nuclear power plants and were able to close their last coal mine two decades ago. In terms of electricity production France is consistently among the "greener" nations in Europe.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR

Anti-nuclear Germany on the other hand, apparently governed by fossil fuel opportunists and innumerate romanticists, is a high carbon intensity hot mess.

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