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Renewable Energy is Killing Nuclear Power
No Hope for Nuclear
Written by Jeff Siegel July 22, 2015
I changed my mind...
Over the past few years, Ive been reluctantly singing the praises of a new nuclear renaissance.
I say reluctantly because Im not actually a fan of expanding nuclear power. It just seems like a costly and superfluous agenda, as the trifecta of energy efficiency, storage, and renewable energy technologies is simply economically superior to nuclear.
However, I never really had much more than a hunch that this thesis made sense. In other words, I lacked enough data to back my argument...
No Hope for Nuclear
Written by Jeff Siegel July 22, 2015
I changed my mind...
Over the past few years, Ive been reluctantly singing the praises of a new nuclear renaissance.
I say reluctantly because Im not actually a fan of expanding nuclear power. It just seems like a costly and superfluous agenda, as the trifecta of energy efficiency, storage, and renewable energy technologies is simply economically superior to nuclear.
However, I never really had much more than a hunch that this thesis made sense. In other words, I lacked enough data to back my argument...
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/renewable-energy-is-killing-nuclear-power/4960
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So things like refrigeration, and reducing the back-breaking toil of human labor -
jonno99
Jul 2015
#31
Guilty? No. Unless you consider that it is your fault that you were born into the place
jonno99
Jul 2015
#36
You could be correct but if that happens it will be a matter of public will, not technology.
kristopher
Jul 2015
#24
No, I'm asking you how you see the politics in relation to the time scale.
GliderGuider
Jul 2015
#27