You'll never have "clean alternative energy" compete while fossil fuels are so cheap. If you shutdown the fossil fuel infrastructure, prices go up and then "clean energy" becomes an option. It's all part of the plan, poor folks out in the oil fields? Collateral damage to save the world from climate change. Sorry, but back to the poverty line forever.
Not just that, contact a company that makes turbine blades for wind farms. Ask them how much waste they produce. Fiberglass, carbon fiber and resin. Ask how much lithium is used to make batteries for those electric cars, how it is mined and what it does to the environment and to the local populace. Ask about how solar panels are manufactured, the chemicals and minerals used to produce them, the waste. Prepare to horse laugh any idiot who calls any of this "clean" energy.
propaganda aside, the reason nuclear isn't truly being adopted is because it's more expensive per watt than existing forms of electricity, once you account for all externalities. that said, if i were in control of the world, i'd definitely switch everything to nuclear as soon as possible.
but from a realpolitik perspective, the USA benefits the most from nuclear not being out there yet, so don't be surprised if it takes a long-ass time for us to allow the world to make the switch.
You'll never have "clean alternative energy" compete while fossil fuels are so cheap. If you shutdown the fossil fuel infrastructure, prices go up and then "clean energy" becomes an option. It's all part of the plan, poor folks out in the oil fields? Collateral damage to save the world from climate change. Sorry, but back to the poverty line forever.
Not just that, contact a company that makes turbine blades for wind farms. Ask them how much waste they produce. Fiberglass, carbon fiber and resin. Ask how much lithium is used to make batteries for those electric cars, how it is mined and what it does to the environment and to the local populace. Ask about how solar panels are manufactured, the chemicals and minerals used to produce them, the waste. Prepare to horse laugh any idiot who calls any of this "clean" energy.
propaganda aside, the reason nuclear isn't truly being adopted is because it's more expensive per watt than existing forms of electricity, once you account for all externalities. that said, if i were in control of the world, i'd definitely switch everything to nuclear as soon as possible.
but from a realpolitik perspective, the USA benefits the most from nuclear not being out there yet, so don't be surprised if it takes a long-ass time for us to allow the world to make the switch.