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22 Countries Pledge to Triple Nuclear Capacity in Push to Cut Fossil Fuels

www.nytimes.com 22 Countries Pledge to Triple Nuclear Capacity in Push to Cut Fossil Fuels

The group, including Britain, France and the United States, said the agreement was critical to meeting nations’ climate commitments.

22 Countries Pledge to Triple Nuclear Capacity in Push to Cut Fossil Fuels

Given the high cost and long lead times involved, I'm incredibly dubious about this one actually happening.

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22 Countries Pledge to Triple Nuclear Capacity in Push to Cut Fossil Fuels

www.nytimes.com /2023/12/02/climate/cop28-nuclear-power.html

22 Countries Pledge to Triple Nuclear Capacity in Push to Cut Fossil Fuels

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With the price drop in renewables it just doesn’t make much sense economically
- Why are people down voting this? I ask sincerely. I would have assumed the same thing.
  
  It is an ideological thing with some people - it doesn’t matter what makes sense economically. You can find a comment on the same level as this one where someone is talking about lacking energy density. I value my time too high to start arguing against something I know is a bad faith argument and nothing will come of it.
  
  Because nuclear has WAY more power generation than other renewables.
  Solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro won't be able to keep up with electricity demand if we want to eliminate fossil fuels. The power density of nuclear just can't be matched.
  
  Are you sure about that? I just mean on account of that no being true!
  
  You misunderstood what I'm saying. I'm not talking about what is powering things, I'm talking about what we need in order to power an all-electric future.
  Nuclear has a much higher power capacity for generation than solar and wind.
  If we want to replace the coal, natural gas, and oil in that graph, we're going to need nuclear.
  
  What we need now, to not transform earth into a postapocalyptic wasteland, are renewables. What type of electricity we use after that I don't care about.

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