More than 68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011

[Nihil]

24. Why? As stated many times before, humans are not to be trusted with nuclear power.

The only benefit of nuclear power at the present moment is that the currently
active nuclear power stations are providing X amount of energy. If they were to be
shut down today, that shortfall of X will be made up using fossil fuels
(c.f., Japan, Germany).

At the present moment, renewable forms of electricity production cannot replace
all fossil fuel forms of electricity production. That is a fact. It is not a prediction for
2, 10, 20 years in the future but a fact here & now.

Adding a further significant shortfall to that issue by closing an additional source
of non-fossil-fuel electricity production cannot speed up or in any other way assist
the transition as, by doing so, that action has vastly increased the demand from
(other) non-carbon sources. That is another fact - here & now.

Hence, the only way that "nuclear power enables a transition to a noncoarbon (sic)
energy infrastructure" is by standing still and not making the problem an order
of magnitude worse by being taken out of the equation for purely political purposes
as the shortfall - here & now - is only made up by fossil fuel.

When the ramp-up of renewables has succeeded in replacing most of the fossil-fuel
generation sources - which, if maintaining the current rates, should happen within
the lifetimes of most of the active nuclear plants - then the nuclear plants should
also be shut down and taken out of the equation, oldest first (obviously).
Thus, over time, the transition to a non-carbon AND non-nuclear energy infrastructure
will have been completed without requiring the deliberate addition of further fossil-fuel
plants under the pretence of "enabling the transition".


This is not "support for nuclear power", not "shilling for the nuclear industry",
not "anti-renewable propaganda" or any other smear that you care to throw.
This is purely and simply refusing to swallow the propaganda from the fossil fuel
industry - specifically the natural gas segment - and justifying that refusal by
recourse to logic and mathematics.


>> Yet again with the already disproven accusations with regards to nuclear.

Maybe you should try reading before writing once in a while?

For the sake of sheer repetition in the hope that it will penetrate your awareness
this time: I do NOT believe that humans can be trusted with nuclear power as
they are too greedy, short-sighted and corrupt.

The same applies to coal, oil and natural gas - the people in charge and supporting
the fossil fuel industry are greedy, short-sighted and corrupt.

Unfortunately, some of the latter group pretend that they are superior (or even
different) to the former group. They are not.