By holding their coal / oil / gas exports hostage
Or, ramping up the price
Coastal wind turbines are not an unreasonable idea in the UK, especially now their unsubsidised cost is now competitive
in terms of polutants wind is pretty good, solar is shit on both fronts, with just co2 emissions a full cycle solar pannel causes more than any fossil fuel except coal, and including non greenhouse gas polutants solar is just the worst
climate change is bullshit really
Don't care @UnScottable
National security.
admittedly don't know @killerqwerty, but it seems UK's nuclear energy supply peaked in the '90s
i think nuclear would be a much danker option
most uranium is mined in canada
Except the French own most if not all of our reactors
British nuclear is cucked out to foreigners
ewww Frogs
whyd you give em to the french. wtf
Exactly @Dubdogelmo
just go take em back
*Hon hon hon*
be like hey you
give me my reactor back biiiitch
so for the us nuclear is 100% safe nationaly since canada is basicaly a part of the usa
@ShardS there are also massive uranium deposits in Australia
well the big energy producer for the US is natural gas now
Interesting how all of the Uranium is in former British dominions
yeah, nuclear gets gutted every time a dem/labour government is in place
the real reason us/uk nuclear is about 20 years behind france and japan.
i dnt understand why that is... is it they are just afraid of a malfunction?
Pretty much yeah
No one wants that
Nuclear in Japan is dead @ShardS
its not really that hard to shut them down
All the reactors have been shutdown
even though its less likely, and less dangerous than most other types of malfunction
ALL.
well, japan shot itself in the foot then
Japan has regressed to fossil fuels
too much public pressure?
the two times they have malfunctioned it was on much older reactors
Yep @Crafty
basicaly people are stupid
@UnScottable this does a good job of going over the reasons for nuclear fear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI6IzPCmIW8
these days they are actually pretty reliable
