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29 October 2021

Michael ShellenbergerKorrents 29 Oct 2021

From one piece Why The Pro-Nuclear Movement Is Winning 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Nuclear energy is necessary to address climate change, protect the environment, and lift people out of poverty.

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We need it to address climate change, and protect the environment. But most of all we need nuclear to lift people out of poverty, and power our remarkable civilization

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Over-investment in unreliable renewables and underinvestment in nuclear, hydro-electricity, and natural gas resulted in energy shortages and rising electricity prices.

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And over-investment in unreliable renewables and underinvestment in nuclear, hydro-electricity, and natural gas, over the last decade, directly resulted in today's energy shortages, skyrocketing electricity prices, and a return to coal around the world.

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Only baseload hydro-electric and nuclear power plants can replace fossil fuels.

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Only baseload hydro-electric and nuclear power plants can replace fossil fuels.

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19 October 2021

Michael ShellenbergerKorrents 19 Oct 2021

From one piece If Democrats Really Cared About Climate Change They Would Have Gone Nuclear 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Renewables return less than half as much energy as high-energy societies require to function.

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Renewables are today parasitical on society because they return less than half as much energy as our high-energy societies require to function, while hydro electric dams and nuclear power plants provide three to seven times more energy.

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The US can expand nuclear energy from 19% to 30% of electricity by 2030 and 50% by 2050.

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There is still a way for President Biden and Senate Democrats to salvage their climate change plans, and that's to pass legislation that would expand nuclear energy from its current 19% today to 30% of electricity by 2030 and 50% by 2050.

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The Clean Energy Performance Program would have increased electricity prices, blackouts, and US dependence on Chinese-made solar panels.

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But the Clean Energy Performance Program was a badly written subsidy that would have increased electricity prices, blackouts, and US dependence on solar panels made by enslaved Muslims in China.

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17 October 2021

Michael ShellenbergerKorrents 17 Oct 2021

From one piece Why Bad Climate Legislation Is Worse Than No Climate Legislation 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The true cost of solar electricity will rise four-fold when the high cost of managing toxic solar panel waste is accounted for.

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when the high cost of managing toxic solar panel waste is eventually accounted for, the true cost of solar electricity will rise four-fold.

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Decarbonizing electricity grids without centering nuclear power will lead to blackouts.

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any efforts to decarbonize electricity grids without creating blackouts must center nuclear power, not weather-dependent solar and wind.

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The continued expansion of weather-dependent renewables will increase electricity costs and blackouts across the United States.

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the continued expansion of weather-dependent renewables will increase electricity costs and blackouts across the United States, as they did in California and Texas.

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4 June 2021

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From one piece Why Environmentalists Cause Climate Change 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Expanding nuclear power could reduce the need for President Biden's renewable energy agenda.

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But Biden's renewable energy agenda is unnecessary for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. could simply expand nuclear power instead.

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The existence of nuclear power reduces the need for renewables.

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But there is something else, too: the existence of nuclear power means we don't need renewables.

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Closing nuclear plants at the state level spikes emissions.

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But at the state level, closing nuclear plants spikes emissions, as both New York and California prove, and New York and if half of America's nuclear plants close over the next decade, as they are predicted to do, they will be replaced mostly by natural gas.

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18 May 2021

Michael ShellenbergerKorrents 18 May 2021

From one piece Why Progressives Are Changing Their Mind About Nuclear 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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A wealthy society cannot exist with a weak electrical grid.

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There is no such thing as a wealthy society with a weak electrical grid.

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The left's support of green energy is wrong-headed due to a lack of engineering discipline.

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This, combined with the left's near total lack of engineering discipline, has manifested in its wrong-headed support of "green energy."

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Renewables are too dilute and intermittent to power industrial society on their own.

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I learned that it produced no carbon, that Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island, and Fukushima were overblown by opponents of nuclear, and that renewables are too dilute and intermittent to power industrial society on their own.

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