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Re:First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial... by pfdietz on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:30PM (#36950803)
This is a baldfaced lie (unless you are engaging a No True Scotsman dismissal of the large number of studies that say otherwise.)
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Re:First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial... by azinman2 on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:44PM (#36950907)
https://youtu.be/bkIK4Xo1GRM
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Re:First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial... by pfdietz on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:26PM (#36951196)
Not wasting 100 minutes of my life on that. I'd read a paper defending such a claim. In the meantime, here are a large number of abstracts of peer reviewed papers showing 100% RE is feasible:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Comb...

Here's a review article on 100% RE studies:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

"The main conclusion of most of these studies is that 100% renewables is feasible worldwide at low cost."

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