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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Oh when the power goes out for a few days the people will be rioting and burning their city to the ground people will forget all about the hyped bads of nuclear power.
Considering wind and solar power only make up about 2 to 3 percent of all the energy used in the United states it's almost pointless to think they will make up the majority any time soon.
In less than 30 years nuclear power went from 0% market share to 9%.
In 10 years solar went from a 0% market share to what effectly rounds rounds down to a 0% market share and it's going to be less than 1% for the forsee able future.
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Some climatologists believe that we won't go from the frying pan,to the fire,for 30-years,so,perhaps we'd have a 'window of opportunity' to continue building out load capability.
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In 2016,we lost the equivalent of 350,000 new tiny homes to drought,which would have remarkably impacted housing-related energy consumption,which in turn impacts the overall 'load' we need to build for with renewable energy.
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If we were to lose that kind of potential each year,we'd be talking about the loss of 10,500,000 homes by the time we really needed to cut the fossil-fuel umbilical cord (or as my neighbor says,our 'diabolical cord.'