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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by pydry on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:25AM (#29140186)
I think if you combine demand shaping, overbuilding, grid scale LIon batteries, better grid interconnects (another thing texas failed miserably at) & pumped hydro you'll find that demand can be met for most people.

It'll take time to shift to using green energy and there will be problems but the same would be true for any other kind of shift to any new sources of power.

Probably not 16 years like the new UK nuclear plant will take though :/

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by coryrc on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:14PM (#29141294)
Yes, we could do that, but that's not what is incentivized by the market so it's not being done on a large scale or with any urgency. Changing the way the market works is what is needed to make those things the action chosen.
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