Pandora's Atomic Box Score: On the Nuclear Industry's Total Meltdown

[PamW]

12. Then you misunderstand my position...

caraher states
As I understand your position, it is that fossil fuel alternatives other than nuclear are essentially pointless distractions.

Then you misunderstand my position.

I'm not saying that non-nuclear fossil fuel alternatives are pointless distractions.

I'm saying what the National Academy of Sciences is saying; which is that those alternatives can't do it all.

The NAS has derived a number of limits on what can be done with those alternatives. That's also what the 4 pro-nuclear climate scientists are saying.

There has been this "credo" that wind / solar can do it all; we just have to go "do it".

The NAS, other scientists and I say that there are limits on what wind / solar can do.

That means there is a big chunk of our electric demand that can't be met by those technologies; and we need a low-carbon energy source to fill that need.

Nuclear should be that low-carbon energy source.

I'm not saying that our energy portfolio should be all nuclear with regard to electricity. I'm part of the "all the above" crowd.

It's the wind / solar crowd that wants to eliminate one of the alternatives a priori and for no good reason.

PamW