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0 pointsSchroedingersat3y ago0 comments

That circle you're running around with the goalposts in is getting very small. Multiple countries are installing more new renewable generation every year than new nuclear has ever gone online.

Also it didn't decarbonize france's economy. It partially decarbonized its electricity, this is well under half of the goal. Numerous countries have achieved more with wind and hydro, and the list of countries with higher VRE percent than france's nuclear is growing longer by the month.

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panick21_3y ago

> It partially decarbonized its electricity, this is well under half of the goal.

Literally no country uses renwales to produce transport fuel.

France decarbonized electricity and has a very high rate of electricity heating in homes. So they are ahead there to and they did that on the back of the nuclear fleet.

> Numerous countries have achieved more with wind and hydro

And even more country have achieved more with hydro and nuclear, such as Sweden or Switzerland.

SchroedingersatOP3y ago

> Literally no country uses renwales to produce transport fuel.

So didn't decarbonize its economy then. And sweden prodices about as much wind as nuclear.

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