(01-27-2021 09:32 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  And I agree that the apprehension towards nuclear is a real thorn in the side of change for baseloading. But there are still plenty of positive and meaningful ways that GHG emissions can be reduced. From big impact items (significantly increasing fuel efficiency and electrifying transportation) to death by a thousand cuts across many different sources, the only way out is not nuclear baseload.

If you want significant change, you are pretty much talking nuclear, at least until we come up with technology not in existence today. Otherwise, you are just playing games.

Of your "big impact items," electrifying transportation clearly requires nukes.

By the way, IIRC without rereading, we got into this discussion based on a comment by a French official. Something like 80% of France's electricity is nuke.