Comment by runarberg
3 years ago
There was a recent pro-nuclear article posted here on HN which was authored by a fossil fuel lobbyist (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35658318). I know you are fishing for the opposite response, but it seems very likely at this point that the fossil fuel industry is funding pro-nuclear propaganda.
I wouldn't put it past them that they want to increase the wedge between nuclear and renewables as much as possible. For them it's easy to be pro nuclear, as it's expensive and slow to build thanks to heavy regulatilon. While we argue nuclear vs. solar and wind, they can sit back and keep profiting from fossile fuels.
Edit: just read the article a bit. It's just as I thought. "Only nuclear can save us" bullshit, whereas a genuine writer would have written "Only a combination of green energy sources can save us". FF industry doing their thing..