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“None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.”

Are you unable to draw a line from Renewables to Extreme weather (a la Texas Freeze), California’s annual blackouts, China’s Uyghur Muslim "education" camps & Genocide solar panels, Child slavery in the Congo (Cobalt supply chain), Energy Poverty & Racism, Germany Energiewende failure, Rising Global CO2 emissions, Prematurely shuttered US nuclear Plants (replaced by Nat Gas & more emissions), Off-shoring of manufacturing jobs, US Grid reliability declines (Industrial Energy Consumers of America) ….is it necessary to keep going or do you get the point? It is time to bring in Nuclear from the cold.

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A fundamental point about nuclear vs solar is the nuclear is highly reliable while solar is highly unreliable. You could put solar panels in the polar regions during their summers to could power from them 24 hours a day, but in the winter there would be no power generated at all.

This is a problem with no solutions as of yet.

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Terrible as the treatment of the Uyghur has been we should not conflate the issues. The world is too complicated for that. China has been mis treating the Tibetans and it’s own political dissidents for decades, but China is a lot better place for the vast majority of its 1.3 billion people than it was 40 years ago. The Chinese people are freer and richer. China has recently been doing much more than the United States to reduce emissions and has just announced plans to quadruple Nuclear Energy by 2050. I would not be surprised if they exceed this. Trump stopped Terrapower building an advanced reactor in China which China was going to finance. The US should vastly expand its nuclear program not because of human rights in China but because it is the most effective way of reducing emissions.

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