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1. Again we hear that so called "renewable energy" is about extreme global heating...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:23 PM
Wednesday

...along with rhetoric attaching nuclear energy to fossil fuels.

This traditional media driven ignorance is the real reason the planet is burning.

The sole purpose of so called "renewable energy" is to attack nuclear energy. It has nothing to do with environmental goals.

Nuclear energy is the only sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, owing to the unparalleled energy density of nuclear fuels. It is also reliable, something that so called "renewable energy" isn't. This is true in Europe, in Africa, in Asia, South America, North America, Australia and in Antartica.

I note that "renewable energy" heaven, Germany, didn't shut its coal plants. They embraced coal. Their carbon intensity for power generation typically runs an order of magnitude higher than that of France. The cleanest power in Germany is the power they import from France.

The article reminds me of my half serious joke that one cannot get a degree in journalism if one has passed a college level science course with a grade of C or higher.

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