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Could you tell me, where we get our oil from? And how we heat our homes with nuclear? We never had any leverage except for the mighty dollar (and nukes and the fact that socialism doesn't need to kill before) and the US is working steady on removing that lever.

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Why do you need oil if you have electicity for dirt cheap? Expand the power lines and push for electic motors everywhere. Also I'm pretty sure running current through a big transistor dissipates plenty of heat, I mean, you know about electric stoves right?

nuclear is far from dirt-cheap. And we don't currently do it in Germany (France does and its grid nearly goes down every other winter). So, where will we get all this fresh uranium from (and the reactors to stick it into)?

> where will we get all this fresh uranium from (and the reactors to stick it into)?

Uranium isn't currently that scarce, and the topic of the day is "why are germany shutting down functioning reactors prematurely".

> And how we heat our homes with nuclear?

The time to start converting ALL of these homes that are heated with hydrocarbons was twenty years ago. It's hard to believe it's still a thing, but I'm in another 20 years we'll be having this discussion. "How on earth can we heat homes without oil and gas? that sounds impossible".

Why would you need (that much) oil when you can run passenger cars, trains, industrial processes, and house heating using electricity? The remaining fuel will be required for only a handful of things, with main consumers being aviation and other transportation where Li-ion is insufficiently energy dense.

Heating water with electricity and with it homes is a solved problem.

> And how we heat our homes with nuclear?

Resistors and/or heat pumps.

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