Globally, renewable energy is the dominant new electricity generation. The USA is followng other countries, particularly China with with over 99.8% electricity generation to come from solar wind and solar in 2024.
The UAE Barakah nuclear plant is considered by some a poster child of the nuclear renaissance. The costs to build with western labour would be 7 times more expense due to wages paid to migrant wages.
France has passed a law to have all carparks, old and new, over 80 spaces covered with solar panels. The electricity is greater than 10 nuclear power plants, cost 1/10th and built in 1/3rd of the time.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has driven a huge investment in battery factories, hydrogen, wind and solar farms, battery storage and other emission reduction technologies.
Wind is much cheaper than nuclear electricity in the UK and yet UK is considering small nuclear as well. Economic stupidity and unwillingness to face up to reality.
Fusion or fiction – can fusion actually provide essentially high quantities of low emission electricity. Or is another 30 years of research needed
Many proponents of nuclear energy ignore the economics and try to dismiss them. Uranium is limited – estimated that if the world was all nuclearl, only 4 years of current supply. The cost to extract lower % uranium becomes prohibitive.
Waste from nuclear is trivialised by nuclear proponents. There currently is no cost effective method of removal of the next 45,000 radioactive life of spent nuclear fuel. Arguments include not much, not dangerous, not my problem.
Uranium mining for nuclear power and for nuclear weapons continues to have geopolitical implications along with the energy needed to […]
Nuclear is often touted as clean but published studies show that it is worse than wind and can be as high as gas.
