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We can’t do any of that yet. We get there with slow incremental steps.
10 years ago renewables weren’t big. Today, Scotland has had several days where we ran off of purely renewable power and that’s without any battery storage systems. We’ve gone from running off of coal to that within peoples life times.
It can be done slowly over decades. We’re talking massive time scales, not one project over 5 years.
I’m not saying nuclear isn’t the answer. My argument has always been that you have to have renewable energy because if you don’t, then by definition you have non-renewable energy, which is unsustainable. Using the theory of the future mega-cities, current hydrocarbon based energy solutions run into problems sooner than renewables do as we just lose the resources at a faster rate.
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