100% renewable energy is a myth concocted by anti-energy greens, to justify shutting nuclear power. Media outlets pushing 100% renewable are also hard-line anti-nuclear power sites. Their news stories on some supposed renewable energy “breakthrough” sometimes say: “Will XXX renewable breakthrough finally kill nuclear power”. Bit of a Freudian slip there by them. Some of the most avid and hard-line 100%-RE activists are funded by natural gas interests.
Shutting nuclear plants means more fossil fuel
The argument against nuclear power, and for 100% renewables basically says: keeping nuclear power slows the transition to 100% renewables. Evidence contradicts this. There is no transition to 100% renewables. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, EIA, show that: shuttered nuclear power plants are replaced by fossil fuel, not “green” energy.
- Mathijs Beckers debunks 100% RE:
- Precourt's anti-nuclear activism - the all or nothing fallacy..., and his other blogs and books.
- Fossil fuel replaces shut nuclear power:
- EIA report: Fort Calhoun becomes fifth U.S. nuclear plant to retire in past five years
- Shuttered Nuclear Plants Aren’t Being Replaced By Green Energy, Daily Caller media report
- Barry Brook (EROI requirements show 100% RE is impossible) :
- The Catch-22 of Energy Storage
- Blair King (a chemist on 100% RE) :
- Deconstructing the 100% Fossil Fuel Free Wind, Water and Sunlight USA paper – Part I Why no nuclear power?
- Deconstructing the 100% Fossil Fuel Free Wind, Water and Sunlight USA paper – Part II What about those pesky rare earth metals?
- Deconstructing the 100% Wind, Water and Sunlight scenarios – Part III Issues with energy storage
- Just some of the other reasons 100% RE is daft:
- Stanford’s Jacobson Spins Energy Misinformation (100% renewables fantasy)
- Climate Activists Push Study Showing 3.8 Million Lost Jobs from Renewable Energy Transition
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