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1. Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 19:22:04 JST Flick 🇬🇧

   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/10/wind-solar-renewables-pointless-waste/

   Wind and solar need to be backed up, close to 100 per cent, by some other means of power generation. If that backup is provided by open-cycle gas or worse, coal, net zero will never be achieved: nor anything very close to it.

   There is one technology that can provide a cheap and reliable supply of low-emissions electricity: nuclear power. Interest in nuclear power is increasing as more and more people realise that it is safe and reliable. If regulators and the public could be persuaded that modern stations are inherently safe and that low levels of nuclear radiation are not dangerous, nuclear power could provide all the low cost, low emissions electricity the world needs for hundreds or thousands of years.

   But if we had 100 per cent nuclear backup for solar and wind, we wouldn’t need the wind and solar plants at all.

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