Re:UK to finish with coal power after 142 years
by jillesvangurp on Monday September 30, 2024 @07:58AM
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Actually nuclear has negative growth at this point. There are a lot of aging plants coming up for either closure or expensive investments needed to keep them going a bit longer.
Re:UK to finish with coal power after 142 years
by melling on Monday September 30, 2024 @07:54AM
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Yeah, people wanted to greatly reduce CO2 emissions. The renewable crowd said we didn’t need it.
Now we’re way behind in reducing emissions. All these stories about AI needing electricity. Where’s the renewable solution?
Re:UK to finish with coal power after 142 years
by blitzar on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:44AM
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Having worked in the industry, "the renewable crowd" were heavily pro nuclear.
Clean coal, clean gas, carbon capture, and the "nothing bad happens when you burn coal I would happily live next to a coal power plant" crowd are the real issue. That's the grift that keeps on grifting.
In that 20 years there has been ~0 increase in US nuclear power generation, and in the UK it has halved.