Fisch , 29 days ago

But we do have to choose, there’s only so much money available. Of course nuclear is better than fossil fuels but there’s just no point in wasting all that money on it that could have instead gone into renewables. I also don’t get your argument about the quantity of energy needed because that was exactly my point, with a set amount of money, you get way more energy out of renewables than fossil fuels. And building renewables is way faster than building nuclear power plants. It takes 15 years, at best, to build a nuclear power plant.

Here’s a chart of the cost of different energy sources from wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Electricity_costs_in_dollars_according_to_data_from_Lazard.png

Here’s how Germany is doing after shutting down all nuclear power plants.

Here you can see how fast Germany is currently building renewable energy, so apparently it is possible to it this fast.

France is a country that uses a lot of nuclear power. Here’s an article that shows how expensive that is.