Renewables are not a complete solution, you need a backup for when the wind down't blow and the sun don't shine.
That backup was going to be Russian gas. Oops. Even in the best of cases, that's just not good for the climate. And you make yourself dependent on a tyrant. And that tyrant then miscalculates, thinking he can blackmail you into not supporting the country he wants to invade. And thus he invades.
With nuclear you need...nothing else. So what we should have done is build out nuclear energy like crazy, starting the same time we started our push into renewables. Because then we would have been done by now, instead of half-way done with the 2nd dirtiest electricity at the 2nd highest prices in the EU.
That's what we should have done.
But turning off perfectly fine reactors that have already been paid for and are producing tons of CO2 free electricity in a so-called "climate emergency" is incompetence that's indistinguishable from malice.
Renewables are not a complete solution, you need a backup for when the wind down't blow and the sun don't shine.
That backup was going to be Russian gas. Oops. Even in the best of cases, that's just not good for the climate. And you make yourself dependent on a tyrant. And that tyrant then miscalculates, thinking he can blackmail you into not supporting the country he wants to invade. And thus he invades.
With nuclear you need...nothing else. So what we should have done is build out nuclear energy like crazy, starting the same time we started our push into renewables. Because then we would have been done by now, instead of half-way done with the 2nd dirtiest electricity at the 2nd highest prices in the EU.
That's what we should have done.
But turning off perfectly fine reactors that have already been paid for and are producing tons of CO2 free electricity in a so-called "climate emergency" is incompetence that's indistinguishable from malice.