Bismarck.Josiahflaming said:
»yeah 97% of the entire province is hydro electric power, in his books that last 3% is the entire "backbone" I guess
The point is that it's just not viable in the vast majority of our countries locations and it's incredibly expensive too (solar and wind are incredibly expensive), not that it can't work in very specific places. But you know that.
The reality is that we will have to embrace Nuclear Power cause there is literally no alternative unless we go into severe power rationing (which won't happen, voters love to virtue signal till they can't turn on their 4k TV to watch Netflix Marathons while having the Air conditioning on), it's all just about how long we can play along with this charade and being intellectually dishonest that solar, wind and hydro are actually worth a damn nationwide. Right now Coal and other dirty methods of power are propping up these laughable "natural alternatives" (including piping power from other nations at great cost, the UK does this from France for example) but once those are phased out we are going to have serious problems keeping up with our power needs (which are increasing every year due to forced electric car use).
What will happen is we will all argue Nuclear is too dangerous (even though it's not, it's incredibly safe) and so can't be used, we will spend trillions of tax payer money on "natural alternatives" that just will not work outside of a few locations (and we know they won't) for a nationwide population and then eventually we will be forced to embrace Nuclear 10-20 years from now in a state of extreme emergency when our national grids on the brink of failure.
So basically we have to go through the theatrics, even though everyone in power knows it's inevitable. All because nobody wants to be called a bad person on twitter for saying we have to embrace Nuclear power.