The Answer to Climate Change Is Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power

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19. Kristopher is so familiar with the study...

Kristopher is so familiar with the study...except for the parts he IGNORES

The 2009 National Academy Study states:

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12943&page=17

But the AEF Committee found that with a sustained, accelerated effort, nonhydroelectric renewables could collectively provide 10 percent of the nation’s electricity generation by 2020 and 20 percent or more by 2035. With current hydropower included, renewables could fulfill more than a quarter of the nation’s electricity needs by 2035

Note that the National Academy of Science report doesn't say that renewables could collectively provide ALL our electric power needs; as kristopher is so often telling us.

The National Academy of Science report doesn't say that renewables could collectively provide MOST of our electric power needs....

The National Academy of Science report does say that renewables could supply on the order of 10% to 20% in the near term.

Of course, this near term is the term during which the climate scientists say we may reach the "tipping point" with regard to CO2 emission. If you don't meet the CO2 emission targets in the near term; it won't matter what happens in the latter half of the 21st century; we will have the global warming catastrophe.

If that happens; it will be courtesy of the anti-nuclear "environmentalists".

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

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