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Re:Engineers can disrupt climate change by glogla on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:09PM (#27668881)
> "Just build nuclear" - As per the post itself, we need to build 3 nuclear plants every day until 2050 to replace the entire grid with nuclear. Yeah not realistic.

> Average world electricity consumption is about 3 TW or 3000 average sized 1 GW nuclear power plants.

That makes it sound like GP is several orders of magnitud wrong. Throws the rest of the post into question as well.

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Re:Engineers can disrupt climate change by generativenoise on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:26PM (#27669068)
The 3 per day per the article is for 1ZJ which is an estimate of total energy consumption, not just replacing the electrical grid.
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