• maporita@unilem.org
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    1 year ago

    Renewables suffer from intermittency … production depends on whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining … and they can’t be ramped up quickly to cope with increased demand. So you need a baseline source to take care of that and the only options we have are fossil fuel or nuclear.

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      Ireland outlawed nuclear in 1999. Not a NATO member quite famously too