@jwildeboer @hrw the problem is that you cannot store solar energy from summer for winter, at least not at the moment and in foreseeable future. So in winter you end up burning either coal or natural gas which both are almost equally terrible for the climate.

@sesivany

@jwildeboer @hrw

That's why we need a mix.
Wind blows in every season and my solarcells on my roof also produce in sunny winter days.

Not as much as in the summer of cause.

@dexternemrod @jwildeboer @hrw solar panel produce roughly 15% of what they do in summer. I've got them on the roof, too.
A mix of renewables is fine, but still far from needed stability.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for renewables. I've got my own photovoltaic, I invest in renewable companies, but I can't close my eyes before a fact that we're decades away from relying on them fully. Until then coal or gas if not nuclear.

@sesivany

@jwildeboer @hrw

I see your point ( and can confirm the ~15%).
And to be honest: Besides seeing storage as an import part of the solution, I am not sure what my opinion on nuclear is.
I'm not sure if the direct benefit by not producing CO2 (or at least less) weights more than the issue with the waste or if it is the other way round.

@dexternemrod @jwildeboer @hrw I'm not a big fan of nuclear, but I think that the climate change is such a great threat to humanity that having nuclear waste stored in rock 1km underground for 1000 years seems like a smaller problem to me. Renewables are my preference, but when it comes to fossil vs nuclear I lean to nuclear.