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Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by dfee on Sunday December 24, 2017 @07:15AM (#15999219)
Speaking of naïveté, it seems that nuclear energy is arguably renewable, and thus “was never considered a renewable source of energy” is at best, naive.

For example, http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/chowdhury2/

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Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by acidburnNSA on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:06AM (#15999566)
Correct. There's a long history of considering nuclear (with breeder reactors) renewable and a fairly strong case for it. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_proposed_as_rene...

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