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by aaomidi 1307 days ago
What’s your source for saying it’s not?

How do you define short and medium term? To me medium is a decade.

There’s also the short to medium term work of enabling nuclear plants to start up again.

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Germany was already a leader in solar and wind in Europe. Even in the US which has much better conditions, you would have to cover an absurd and untenable amount of land with solar/wind to effectively displace fossil fuels with current technology. You certainly couldn’t do it in 10 years. I don’t consider nuclear renewable. We are no closer to finding a good solution for the waste. And there are other safety concerns.

“Wind and solar generation require at least 10 times as much land per unit of power produced than coal- or natural gas-fired power plants, including land disturbed to produce and transport the fossil fuels.” https://www.brookings.edu/research/renewables-land-use-and-l...