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    Electricity only accounts for about 18% of emissons

    You have to switch all processes to electricity or hydrogen like steel making or fertilizer.

    Best results come from not abusing the third world and letting them have a future that allows them to only have two children.

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      You have to switch all processes to electricity or hydrogen like steel making or fertilizer.

      Doesn’t turn Uranium into a regrowing resource.

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        Others have mentioned breeder reactors. There is also Thorium. But it is only necessary to use the energy until renewables take over. The last 70 years and the next 30 would have been enough to prevent global warming.

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          The last 70 years and the next 30 would have been enough to prevent global warming.

          Suggesting that this would only be possible by going nuclear has absolutely zero basis in reality. Spinning magnets to generate electricity is a known way generate electricity since way before the first nuclear reactor was ever built. Hydropower and wind turbines were invented during the industrial revolution.

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            14 hours ago

            What would you have done in the 1960ies and 1970ies to end the usage of fossil fuels?

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                That’s a nice solution, but only for a part.

                From where does the electricity come?

                How is steel and fertilizer produced without coal and gas?

                I think only nuclear could have provided the energy. There were no carbon fibers for the wind turbine blades.

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                  From where does the electricity come?

                  Turbines

                  I think only nuclear could have provided the energy.

                  Of course you would think that but you aren’t impartial.

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                    From where does the electricity come?

                    Turbines

                    Which energy spins the turbines?