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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•2 months agoSure, for nuclear to help not reach the 1.5°C threshold it should have been built decades ago. For nuclear to help not reach the 2°C threshold it can be built now. But surely in a few decades it will also take too long to build. Right now there are new fossil fuel plants being built, I think nuclear is a better alternative than that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•2 months agoIf we had to decide between nuclear and coal, the clear winner is nuclear. As I stated in the other comment that renewables are more cost effective than nuclear, and thus, we can convert more coal to emission free energy than with nuclear.
Sure, for nuclear to help not reach the 1.5°C threshold it should have been built decades ago.
For nuclear to help not reach the 2°C threshold it can be built now. But surely in a few decades it will also take too long to build.
Right now there are new fossil fuel plants being built, I think nuclear is a better alternative than that.
If we had to decide between nuclear and coal, the clear winner is nuclear. As I stated in the other comment that renewables are more cost effective than nuclear, and thus, we can convert more coal to emission free energy than with nuclear.