All countries not actively expanding with nuclear power is planning for economic collapse.
All countries actively expanding with wind and solar power is planning for economic collapse.
Whats wrong with solar?
Not reliable and creates grid instability. Same with wind. Neither is cheaper.
To add wind or solar requires a reliable backing source. Which means nuclear or fossil. Which means the real cost of wind and solar is always (wind or solar) + (nuclear or fossil). Except now you're demanding the backing remain unprofitable and mostly idle.
The result is adding wind or solar will only decrease grid reliability and stability and increase energy costs. Period.
Absolutely no sane person advocates for wind or solar at the grid level.
Not to mention having to destroy hundreds of acres of land and displacing wildlife to build solar farms
Find me a Solar Panel company that is strictly solar powered.
Just go look at powerplants by US state on wikipedia and see how much power they put out. You will find solar/wind capacities are a tiny fraction of even one medium sized coal powerplant and solar/wind capacity is optimum capacity, not including cloudy days and days with no wind. Coal plants usually turn out around 1,000MW of capacity and a solar field of decent size is usually about 5MW, and that's capacity, NOT average output. Plus they are made in China with rare Earth minerals mined from China. Wind is a little better but they have to clear cut jungles with Balsa wood because they require so much of it to make the turbines.
harder for elites to control. It's a perpetual motion machine as long as the sun exists. Everyone could have solar panels. They lie oil cuz they can guard the oil fields. Or nuclear power plants, they can guard those. Coal, natural gas, etc same thing.
Wind is also free and easy, and hydro power. They're not transitioning off oil just raising prices to make our lives harder.
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