Comment by jabl
1 day ago
My argument was that while waiting for renewables to become cheap, we could have built nuclear instead of fossil capacity and avoided a shitton of emissions. The Messmer plan being an existence proof that such a thing would have been possible.
We did try to build nuclear. Massive subsidy programs were created, it just didn’t deliver.
Renewables passed nuclear a long time ago. If the economics of renewables weren't making sense, the economics of nuclear were worse.