(March 13, 2022 at 12:03 am)Paleophyte Wrote:(March 11, 2022 at 5:59 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Like fossil fuels, nuclear fuel is non-renewable. It's just another short-term fix.
For a given value of "short-term". Existing resources could run our entire power grid for millennia. The climate crisis that fossil fuels has produced needs fixing within decades. OK, decades ago, but you get the sense of immediacy. We can implement nuclear now or we can suck back another few decades of CO2 emissions as the sea levels rise. Those may not be palatable options to you but they're what's on the table for our energy-hungry society.
And, you've proven my point. Replace the 200+ coal plants in the United States with nuclear power ones. The coal that exists all throughout the United States will still be mined and will be shipped overseas to be burned in coal fired plants elsewhere.
