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> It's also a bit ridiculous to point out the improvement in solar technology, and ignore everything else. Sure solar technology is improving over time. So is nuclear.

The solar improvements are a lot more demonstrable, the nuclear ones are usually more theoretical due to the time and cost of building new reactors.

>In fact it's existed for quite awhile. We could have gotten rid of coal decades ago, if not for irrational fear.

Unsafe nuclear has existed for quite a while. Safe nuclear has yet to prove it's practical, which includes being cost effective against wind and solar.

> And I find this sentiment really hard to understand. Why bet everything on solar?

Parent mentioned wind and solar, and they didn't exclude others like hydro and tidal where appropriate. That's not betting everything on solar.

>All that discussion of the coming robot revolution surely applies to coal mining.

To a large extent it already has. New mines are human intensive to create, but largely automated after they're online.