... and said he was going to take it to Europe and sell it (IIRC it had to do with if Obama became president).
He routinely makes totally false claims about virtually anything, and as a consequence nothing he states - even the most trivial thing - can be taken on faith.
The fact is that nuclear has had every chance to be viable, but it can't cut it. It lacks the flexibility to perform as a valuable part of a distributed renewable grid, and there is no way in hell we're going to sell the world on the 4000+ reactors we'd require to base a system around nuclear.
The technology is saddled with 4 interrelated problems - cost, safety, waste, and proliferation of nuclear weapons material. There are dozens of designs that attempt to solve these problems, but nothing has emerged that does anything except trade off improvements in one or two areas at the expense of worsening things in one or two other areas. Another problem that isn't included, btw, is the length of time required to build nuclear. In every case where there is transparency in the process (this excludes China, Japan and Korea) the amount of time and cost involved in construction is horrible compared to industry projections.
This is a post I made recently that shows what's coming. It is what Bernie is moving to reinforce and build on. We can easily double this if we have the political will. As you might surmise from the editorializing I did at the end, it was posted for Nnadir.
Jan 28, 2015 09:45 CET by Ivan Shumkov
Jan 28, 2015 (SeeNews) - The installed renewable energy capacity around the world is projected to jump to 3,203 GW in 2025 from 1,566 GW in 2012 as declining costs allow developing countries to adopt such technologies.
This is indicated in Frost & Sullivan’s Annual Renewable Energy Outlook 2014 report, which says that the global green energy capacity will grow at an average annual rate of 5.7% in 2012-2025. The market researcher has determined that solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power will account for 33.4% and 32.7%, respectively, of the total capacity added over the period under review, followed by hydropower with a 25.3% share.
Frost & Sullivan estimates that the worldwide solar power capacity will surge to 668.4 GW in 2025 from 93.7 GW in 2012, but the falling PV prices and the “veritable boom” in that segment will hurt the concentrated solar power (CSP) market.
Meanwhile, global wind power capacity is expected to hit 814 GW in 2025, going up from 279 GW in 2012. Frost & Sullivan stressed that the offshore wind market will not grow at the expected pace, but small-scale wind turbines will open up new applications.
Good to keep solar heat applications in mind also. It's definitely, by some, an under appreciated resource.
https://www.iea-shc.org/data/sites/1/publications/Solar-Heat-Worldwide-2015.pdf
And what even better?
The goal and expectations have increased just since these reports were written.
Now, if we could just get the cooperation of the crackpot-obstructionists-that-can't-give-up-their-dreams-of-a-glowing-future-through-nuclear, things would ramp up even more quickly. I mean it should be a crime what they've done in Britain! The lies, energy chaos, and locked in increased emissions that the pursuit of nuclear has resulted in literally should be a crime, don't you think. Dismantling their very successful energy efficiency program in order to preserve energy demand so that they would have a rate base for a nuclear plant guaranteed to produce some of the most expensive electricity in the world - Yes, I'm sure that is an ethical crime.
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