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by paulddraper 1117 days ago
> Even if we turn around today and start building a hundred nuclear plants all over the world, it will take decades for them to come online and start displacing fossil fuel energy production

A. Construction start to finish is well under a decade.

B. This concern is true of any alternative energy source.

> The push for "we shouldn't do renewables, because they can't do the job, so we should invest in nuclear" is about taking the wind out of renewable's sails.

The push against nuclear is to line the pockets of renewable companies, and exploits the layman's misunderstanding about environment impact of nuclear and its alternatives.

There are just as many manipulative, disingenous arguments by Big Oil as by Big Renewable.

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Name "Big Renewable".
General Electric, NextEra, Tesla, JinkoSolar, Vestas Wind

Tesla has $100B+ bigger market cap than any "Big Oil" company.