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They provide less than 1% of the worlds energy needs and even if you project up to 2040 they are still only going to be providing around 3% of the worlds energy needs. How is that winning?

So perhaps you are the one who's been too tied to one specific narrative that's not holding up to reality.



In the magical world in which your argument there would be correct, technologies jump from 0 to dominant market share in a single discontinuous leap.

But we do not live in that cartoon universe. Here in real world, market share increases nearly continuously. On the way from 0 to 100, it passes near all the intermediate points.

What distinguishes a losing technology is not that it ever had a low market share -- all winning technologies did at some point -- but that they stop growing, and start losing market share. That describes nuclear, not renewables.




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