We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal

Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by deepnotderp on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:15PM (#24747807)

Isn't there an obvious hidden random variable there? The only countries that are really actively building nuclear power are growing developing countries like India, so of course their emissions are increasing.

EDIT: So yes:

> "The study found that in countries with a high GDP per capita, nuclear electricity production does associate with a small drop in CO2 emissions."

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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by manicdee on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:12PM (#24751084)

There's also the confounding element that the CO2 emissions could have dropped faster if the money was spent on renewables instead, plus the infrastructure for large centralised power generation is not really compatible with distributed generation.

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