Nothing is “clean”. Wind/solar manufacturing are themselves polluting and would need massive amounts of battery storage to be moderately reliable that generates even more pollution. Geothermal is probably best but depends even more on location.
It’s not magic, but it has advantages that are hard to beat in terms of resource usage. Renewables also have advantages, but you can’t handwave away their own problems and limitations anymore than you can do so for nuclear energy.
Nothing is “clean”. Wind/solar manufacturing are themselves polluting and would need massive amounts of battery storage to be moderately reliable that generates even more pollution. Geothermal is probably best but depends even more on location.
That is my point.
Yet you only talked about problems with nuclear while ignoring the problems of other energy sources you brought up.
Yes and you didn’t bring up that oil is not clean either?
You started with
If you meant to include oil in “less co2 intensive” just say so, then we can talk about it.
What? No. I was merely putting in perspective that nuclear energy is not a magic thing that will solve everything.
It’s not magic, but it has advantages that are hard to beat in terms of resource usage. Renewables also have advantages, but you can’t handwave away their own problems and limitations anymore than you can do so for nuclear energy.