Wind and solar generation spreads like cancer. Dilute and diffuse, intermittent and unreliable the wind and solar generators’ demand for land is insatiable. And because every single MW of wind or solar generation capacity has to be backed up by another MW of dispatchable power generation (coal, gas, diesel or hydro) to accommodate sunset and calm weather, the conventional generators will continue to occupy the space they always have.
Which brings us to nuclear. None of what appears in the paragraph above applies to nuclear power generation. Concentrated, persistent and reliable, nuclear power doesn’t need batteries and it doesn’t need backup. Moreover, it doesn’t need an endless acres of land, as Ronald Bailey explains below.
New Study: Nuclear Power Is Humanity’s Greenest Energy Option
Reason
Ronald Bailey
10 May 2023
Germany idiotically shut down its last three nuclear power plants last month. Until 2011, the country obtained one-quarter of its…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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