If you are pushing nuclear power by saying renewables are non-starters, Texas would like a word. 40% of our electricity is renewable.
It takes less than a year to build wind or solar farm.
It takes three to six YEARS for nuclear — and the power is more expensive. About triple. That’s insane!
The SPOF are also higher with nukes.
And the mind boggling reality is that if you want to reduce climate change quickly, renewables are faster to implement, cheaper to run and result in a power that is less harmful to people than nuclear (which ALWAYS hurts poor people in the same way coal mining does).
@feloneouscat the economic incentives about this should've resulted in policy 40 years ago. They resulted in flaggelation only.
@feloneouscat FFS, Nixon established the EPA. Shit's gotten weaker every admin since then. And the shitstorm I thought would hit my grandchildren has me considering whether I need to sell the house and move inland even in my lifetime. JFC.
“In 2022 Costa Rica produced a whopping 98% of its electricity from renewable sources for over eight years in a row.”
And the US can’t even get to 50% because we might make Big Fossil Fuel or Big Nuke angry.
It’s like we abdicated our technological future to other countries.
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/11-countries-leading-the-charge-on-renewable-energy/
@feloneouscat We have idiots claiming windmills cause mass bird deaths. Fucking whole millions on Don Quixotes, who would've thought. JFC.
@feloneouscat We have a rather large front bay window. At least three birds a year smash into it (but, not to their death). Ella stays indoors. You're right!