What do you think of mainstream opposition to nuclear energy amongst green political groups?
I’m of the opinion that it’s far from a durable solution but shouldn’t be phased out as long as we don’t have a clear and viable plan to implement other renewable energy sources. What’s your take?
I’m not going to disagree on the sustainability of nuclear on the long run but we still need a few decades for other green energy sources to be consistently implemented. There still is a lot of technical details to work out before wave energy is developed on any large scale, and solar/wind are fairly polluting and expensive to manufacture and maintain. Unfortunately getting rid of nuclear now is a huge coin toss. Say a government decides to close nuclear powers to replace them with a green source, it’s not too far fetch to expect that a future fiscally conservative administration is just going to replace them with fossil fuels.
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Would’ve been better if they did get rid of (brown) coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany Brown coal: 20% Hard coal: 10%
I think it is better to give the next generation nuclear waste instead of toxic air.
Half of the platform of their oposition was marxists projecting environmental progress as a blight against the working class to oppress the free pillage of the natural resources garenteed to them. I think that influenced the deciaion on coal. Im no expert though.
Not sure a lack of nuclear power has improved germany. But their renewables are pretty impressive.
Of course the discussion of nuclear tech is very different thirty years later.