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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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9. Nuclear is a trivial source of energy and sinking

Reply to NNadir (Reply #8)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 11:52 PM

Apr 2016

Nuclear v produces less than 3% of global final energy consumed.
The forecast is for negative growth.

Renewables ^ produce about 20% of global final energy consumed.
That's from about 1.6TW of capacity, which is expected to double to about 3.5TW by 2025.

3% is much less than 20%.

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