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[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Storage technology isn't there yet. Nuclear is. The only viable approach is "all of the above." Anything less is foolishness and oil industry propaganda.

[–] Relo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

50 yeas ago people couldn't think of a future without fossile fuel. 100 years ago people thought ships would run on coal for eternity and 200 years ago or in fact up until WW2 horses did most of the work when it came to transportation.

Things change fast. Stagnation of technology is not the norm.

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are urgent needs we can't wait 50 years for.

[–] Relo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

France started to build their new power plant in 2007 and hope to connect it to the grid next year.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The same people who run the oil companies also run nuclear plants, billionaires love a monopoly but what they hate is local communities being able to own and run solar farms and wind turbines, they hate the idea of someone that isn't them being able to spend a million making a profitable offshore wind farm or a raised water energy storage facility -- more than anything they hate the thought of houses and businesses having PV on the roof and being able to detach evenb just in part from the mechanisms owned by them.