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Sweden turning away from “unreliable” wind and solar and back to clean nuclear power

I’m very concerned about America switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Renewables are expensive, unstable, unreliable, and harmful to animals – especially birds and bats. I would much prefer if the country relied on fracking and nuclear power, which are zero emission and harmless to animals. Sweden had been focused on renewables, but they’re now moving back to nuclear.

Here’s the story from the The Blaze:

The Swedish parliament determined last week that in order to ensure the country has a “stable energy system,” it will have to abandon its goal of “100 per cent renewable electricity production by 2040.”

To satisfy electricity demand, which is set to double to around 300 TwH by 2040, Sweden’s right-of-center government announced June 20 that it would instead lean more heavily on nuclear energy and subsidize the construction of new nuclear plants — plants green-lit in 2016 but sidelined for fear they would be too expensive, reported Reuters.

The country, home to just over 10.5 million people, presently has three nuclear plants with six nuclear reactors in commercial operation. The state-owned Vattenfall aims to bring the tally up to eight reactors and refurbish extant facilities.

Wow, what accounts for this big change in direction? Well, the country experiences very cold winters. After poor performance from the renewables during the winter, the people started to demand results – which is why they elected a right-of-center government to make changes.

Swedish support for nuclear energy is presently at a record high of 56%, up from 42% in 2022, reported Bloomberg.

Sweden knows what to do to fix their energy problems. Other countries are moving to nuclear power in order to get clean, reliable zero-emission low-cost power.

South Korea is going back into nuclear. This article from far-left CNN is from July 2022:

South Korea, one of the world’s most fossil fuel-reliant economies, is re-embracing nuclear energy, with the government announcing Tuesday it will restart construction on two nuclear reactors and extend the life of those already in operation.

By 2030, the Energy Ministry wants nuclear to make up at least 30% of the country’s power generation – a step up from its previous goal of 27%.

To meet this, South Korea is restarting construction on two new reactors at the Hanul Nuclear Power Plant on the country’s east coast. Construction on the two reactors has been stalled since 2017, when former President Moon Jae-in – who had pushed hard to phase out nuclear energy – took office.

But with a new President in office, South Korea’s nuclear industry is returning at full speed.

Japan is restarting their idled nuclear power plants, and planning to build more next-generation nuclear reactors. They need reliable power, and they don’t want to count on their neighbors to sell it to them. They want to develop their own energy at home, and lower the prices that their citizens have to pay.

The problem in America is that we’ve elected people to lead us who have no skills or understanding of how the world works. People like AOC, who were working as bartenders and waitresses are making policy decisions. Why did we elect stupid and corrupt people to run the government? Because they told us what we wanted to hear? I would rather have results than words. This is only going to be fixed when we elect leaders from the grown-up party.

3 thoughts on “Sweden turning away from “unreliable” wind and solar and back to clean nuclear power”

  1. Too much recent environmental policy assumes that if you throw enough money at a problem science can get inferior solutions like solar and wind power to be capable of making lots of sustainable power. Even battery issues are promised to be fixed if you throw money at it.

    But actual laws of physics and chemistry won’t be bypassed.

    Politicians with no clue as to how anything works are always useless when it comes to figuring out what you can do scientifically.

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  2. When I was doing background reading for a project I was working on at a national lab in 2001 (study off campus for science undergraduates), people were publishing articles on hydrogen fuel cells. Hydrogen fuel cells are still experimental.

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