[cbmuser]

Except that solar power isn’t an effective measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector. Nuclear is far more effective as the comparison between France and Germany shows with Germany emitting _seven_ times the emissions as France in their energy sector.

[throwaway2245]

Because Germany burns seven times as much fossil fuel as France.

This tells us that France has a cleaner energy mix than Germany, but I don't think this cherry-picked example contributes much to the discussion otherwise, no matter how many times you repeat it.

[Jweb_Guru]

That's an incredibly disingenuous comparison; Germany gets just 10% of its power from solar, while France gets about 75% of its power from nuclear. Once again, this is not some sort of demonstration that "solar doesn't reduce greenhouse emissions," it's an indication that people need to start building pumped storage.

[oezi]

I think your argument could be good if nuclear had any chance in the future. Unfortunately though, it hasn't. The complexity, risk and political cost make it unlikely that we will see a nuclear renaissance. Even countries like the US that can be very market driven, see much higher levels of investment in renewables including solar than nuclear.

[literallycancer]

Nuclear is too expensive, takes too long to deploy and the projects always exceed their budget.

[patmorgan23]

I think a some of that is because of the way nuclear has been deployed. Similar to reason the US Navy has been offered a buy 1 get one half off deal for it's air craft carriers. Using standardized designs and the same labor force to build multiples of the same thing is exponentially cheaper than doing one off designs/contracts.

There is of course a limit to this effect, for nuclear there's site specific engineering/design that has to happen which you don't have for ships.

But the savings in workforce cost can absolutely be realized in nuclear if a large enough pipeline of projects is developed which it looks like the French power company EDF is doing.

[anigbrowl]

You already made a top level post asserting this, there's no need to keep repeating it.