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LordoftheMorons posted...

Lmao Bernie's Green New Deal plan aims to end nuclear power usage and rejects carbon capture as a "false solution"

What a fucking joke:

So I also support nuclear and think the pushback is way overblown, but I will defend him on this for one reason:

Bernie's plan is crazy ambitious and has by far the biggest goal of any candidate (yeah even counting Inslee) which is 100% renewable energy by 2030. The standard plan, the bwre minimum that has to be done, is 50% emissions by 2030, net-zero by 2050.

Nuclear power isn't completely renewable, it's main value is as a transition energy. So if you truly believe that you can make an incredibly rapid transition to sustainable energy in 10-15 years...there honestly isn't any reason to waste time and money on intermediate energy tech.

Whether his goals are realistic is another conversation that I can't really speak to but it's nice to see plans going beyond that bare minimum.
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