- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
How we get off fossil fuels looks very roughly like this:
- Generate electricity without burning stuff (wind, solar, geothermal, storage, and maybe nuclear if it’s cheap enough)
- Electrify everything we can (electric vehicles, elecrified mass transit, ebikes, heat pumps for home and district heat, nitrate fertilizer manufacturing, etc)
- Stop doing the things we can’t (a few industrial processes)
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Honestly, as much as I like the idea of nuclear, it’s too late for it to save us. I still believe it can/will be an important and valuable part of our future energy mix as stable, baseline power production, it is just so damn slow to get new plants up and running compared to the timeline that we need to get off of fossil fuels. And stuff like SMRs that hopefully will not have as bad of lead times are not quite there yet either.