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Solar is great but so is nuclear. They have different use cases, we need both.
Nukes are very expensive to build, but easily the cheapest energy is that you have a nuclear power plant up already and you keep it running. Germany royally fucked that one up.
Nuclear is not there when you need it. It's prohibitively expensive to build, it takes decades to finish. If we wait for nuclear power to replace coal, we'll be at 4°C.
Better stop complaining about that fantastical technology and use the tools that are there. They're quite good already, we can do it.
What about using both instead of being idiots who fight about which is better? They clearly have their use cases. We can use all kind of renewables to decommission coals and meanwhile build nuclear reactors.
Or if you're Germany, use renewables to decommission your nuclear reactors while continuing to burn Russian natural gas and Polish coal 🙄