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With cheap nuclear energy we could have had electric cars for 50 years thus massively reducing global warming.
The same people who protested for environment protection protested against nuclear energy.
We could not have had electric cars for 50 years because there were no viable electric cars 50 years ago. The lack of electricity was not the reason.
Also nuclear energy is simply not cheap. Modern reactors (those that are actually good and don't explode and don't produce eternal poison) are so expensive that no energy company wants to build them (unless they get a shit ton of subsidies).
If we build more reactors 50 years ago we would have a lot of 50 year old reactors that were designed to last less than 50 years. And upgrading or demolishing them is expensive as fuck.
What other realistic alternatives do you suggest?
Solar only works when there's sun, fusil fuels kill the planet and give you all sorts of health issues including cancer.
I agree it's important greatly reduce consumption and build car independent infrastructure. But nuclear power is still the most reliable and least harmful source of power and if it wasn't for the disinformation and irrational nuclear phobia a considerable part of the energy problems would be improved.
A combination of various renewables (solar, wind, hydro in its various forms), combined with sustainable high density storage and a global network of power delivery with multiple redundancies is the solution.
But it will obviously not happen as it isn't in shareholders' interest to have sustainable, cheap energy.