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Why Progressives Are Changing Their Mind About Nuclear

Michael Shellenberger · 18 May 2021

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  1. Our reading

    Renewables are too dilute and intermittent to power industrial society on their own.

    Their wordsI learned that it produced no carbon, that Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island, and Fukushima were overblown by opponents of nuclear, and that renewables are too dilute and intermittent to power industrial society on their own.

  2. Our reading

    The left's support of green energy is wrong-headed due to a lack of engineering discipline.

    Their wordsThis, combined with the left's near total lack of engineering discipline, has manifested in its wrong-headed support of "green energy."

  3. Our reading

    A wealthy society cannot exist with a weak electrical grid.

    Their wordsThere is no such thing as a wealthy society with a weak electrical grid.

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