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Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading

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The Carbon Cost of Saving Nuclear Is Not Worth It

From the Trump side, it was sold as this is about energy security. There's like keeping coal plant workers and jobs. And of course, the smart folks, academics, the decarbonizers, the renewables folks are like, coal is dead. It's dying on its own, not that we love gas, but gas is killing it. If nuclear dies to that just shows that,. The pro nuclear folks, especially in the mainstream environmental groups, they were basically looking at this and saying, is protecting coal, which we see as wrong? Is that worth it to save nuclear?

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