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Because solar and wind can be deployed much faster. You rather easily have a decade of extra coal or gas emissions, if you built nuclear today.

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Two things can be built at once.

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No. The total amount of money available for energy research and construction is a given amount. If it’s better spent on solar and wind that’s it.

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Sure, but why would you built a nuclear power plant, when you are faster in having a clean grid with wind and solar. The workers building the npp could built more wind and solar after all.

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So just do both at the same time.

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Can be, won’t be tho

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