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Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Doctrinaire positions lead to a kind of blindness. Some people delight in pointing out any negatives
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 07:14 AM
Jul 16

It's as if all non-nuclear energy is bad, bad, and nuclear has no flaws and is therefore the only solution.

In this case all "renewables" including hydroelectricity are deemed fickle and intermittent and useless without batteries to store their energy. That is of course a dim, limited, clouded view that is in some cases incorrect.

The concepts of transitioning and intermediate stages on the way to the perfect end solution (of which there are multiple possibilities) seems to escape some posters.

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