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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by onepointsixC on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:17AM (#26193370)
In a normal world, the population of the US would have risen up instantly if their president had signed such a do nothing deal like the climate accords which fails to even get us within spitting distance of dealing with the issue.

The solution wasn't building wind farms, it was finishing the nuclear build up like they had originally planed, just like how France did. But that was killed by self proclaimed environmentalists of that era.

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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by tsimionescu on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:18PM (#26196838)
Quite possibly, though there are/were good reasons to be wary of nuclear energy as well. I do personally believe that the risks from global warming outweigh those from nuclear plants at this time, but I don't think this was clear at all 50 years ago.
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