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Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo... then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capital (money) and capital (political) are the only roadblocks between us and a 100% renewable future. So no, there's no value to wasting either of those on nuclear when they could be more wisely proportioned to renewables. Pretty much the only resource that nuclear consumes that isn't consumed by most renewables would be uranium. I'm willing to just go ahead and say we can leave that one in the ground.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re really not, and if you think that then you need to read more. And “political capital” isn’t some big fungible pool of quatloos, it’s a lot of little tiny stupid slow fights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, go ahead and list the resources used for building nuclear reactors that isn't used for building other renewables.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago
  1. Uranium.

And thats about it.