Yet goverments are still pushing green agenda. No coal, no nuclear, no heating... ICE cars will be banned soon...
We do not have enough electricity for trains already, yet somehow we will quadruple our electricity consumption, without building any infrastructure!
How are ICE cars being "banned" soon?
How will the consumption quadruple and why do you think that increased consumption won't be accompanied by infrastructure upgrades?
So to make this plan realistic, there should be 50 (maybe 100) power plants under construction or in planning phase right now. Instead we are closing down power plants and reducing electric grid capacity!
eg:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens#Energy_...
>How are ICE cars being "banned" soon?
eg:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/california-decides-to-ban...
https://www.electrive.com/2022/06/29/eu-council-decides-on-1...
https://www.just-auto.com/news/uk-government-confirms-2030-i...
These are very easy questions to answer.
Nuclear is zero carbon, but not renewable, and is a source of non dispatchable baseload.
Solar and wind are both zero carbon and renewable, but not dispatchable and not a baseload source.
Solar and wind plus storage are zero carbon, renewable, and also a source of dispatchable baseload.
It is very much a practical constraint for current nuclear reactors (whether traditional or SMR) whose uranium supply chains lead straight to problem zones [1].
Using conventionally mined uranium, traditional reactors would only provide 5 years of the world's electricity demand [2].
Seawater-extracted uranium could stretch into the thousands of years, but that is unproven at scale and cost. Similarly unproven are the fast breeder reactors needed to truly make the non-renewability of nuclear moot.
1. https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
2. https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm....