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The entirety of the US could be powered by solar power if they converted 10% of land which is just parking spaces to solar farming, and there would still be enough parking spaces left in the country to have seven for every car. The amount of land required for the benefits is completely inconsequential.
Meanwhile, for nuclear:
The space might be available in the US, but it's not in Europe.
The co2 emission from nuclear is less than from renewables. That's a hard fact.
Lithium extraction is as bad a uranium.
The quantities needed to build solar or wind are far larger than for nuclear. And need to rebuild them twice or three times more often.
You need to stop to make up fantasies about renewables.