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RedDevil · 06-01-2018, 04:21 AM

To the nuke industry

Al Gore is smart btw. The time to enjoy that beach is now; it will be gone in 30 years.

Look, 100% renewable is a pipe dream. It can't be done in our lifetime.
Nor can 100% nuclear or 100% oil or 100% coal, whatever.
What can and must be done is shifting the balance away from fossil fuels towards renewable and nuclear to break the trend of continuously rising carbon dioxide levels.
Getting 80% of our energy from renewables and nuclear combined, that's feasible.

It will take a lot of effort. And take huge amounts of money.
But - we also spend huge amounts of money to keep up the fossil fuel infrastructure. Oil is now expensive enough to get drilling in the North Sea again: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oi...th-Spiral.html.
All those billions are not wasted of course. They create jobs and drive industry and economies. Yet - that is just as true when setting up and maintaining renewable energy sources. The jobs may be different, the effect on the economy is the same.

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