viper12a1a t1_j2qmx8x wrote
Reply to comment by mhornberger in Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms by Creative_soja
Ok, and what happens when it's not windy 100% of the time? Green energy still relies on external conditions to function, nuclear is efficient and consistent.
Why do you think France is an energy exporter while most offe other European countries are floundering without constant energy imports from Russia?
mhornberger t1_j2qo3g4 wrote
You distribute generation, and also combine with solar and other methods. Storage will be needed, and is already incrementally being rolled out. Seasonal storage too is possible, with green ammonia and some other options.
>Why do you think France is an energy exporter
Except when they aren't. France too is facing possible energy cuts, largely due to unforeseen problems with their nuclear fleet. And I'm talking about new capacity, i.e. decisions made in the current day as to new generation to be built. And around the world solar and wind are far outpacing nuclear when it comes to new capacity.
And a good percentage of the world's nuclear fuel and fuel processing comes from Russia. Yes, you can build out new processing and mining capacity, but that takes time. If you cut out all fuel imports from Russia, what percentage of currently operating nuclear plants around the world will have to shut down? For how long? So dependency on Russian energy is a wider, more entrenched problem than merely gas pipelines.
viper12a1a t1_j2qoud9 wrote
The "unforeseen problems" are that they decided to take most of them down for maintenance at the same time because French.
The US has tons of resources if only we were allowed to actually go get them, but our government would rather not be energy independent and instead import all the energy we could be producing
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