Harry I am guessing your reply here might have been intended to be in response to Marcus, am guessing you miight be using something like the Android app, that tricks us into thinking we are replying to someone, then just puts the text of our comment somewhere that makes it look like we are responing only to ourselves. Hey-ho.
As you know, I am opposed to nuclear, and you might think you have heard everything I have to say about it, but please hear me out: The base evidence you've used to argue that solar is not an option, even bunching it with other "Renewables", is all figures which anyone can find on the www. I argue alll of the figures you've chosen to quote are produced by the companies in energy for profit. I bet you can't find figures backing up those claims from any company or organisation which is not in the business of energy for profit.
If you did, your stories would not be supported by investors, who obviously see no opportunity to invest in non-profit enterprise.
Whereas your stories positively promoting nuclear on this theme might seem more successful, being more popular, as you are effectively dangling a carrot which looks attractive to investors.
But that doesn't validate your information.
Further, you've quoted some examples which look like "Nuclear success stories", omitting to talk about solar success stories, which invalidate the assertion that solar is not capable of supplying all the power we need.
Vietnam comes to mind as an example of a country which achieved more than 8 times their grid capacity of solar, in only 18 months. They have a technical issue of how to put that energy to use, but it is easily solved from an engineering point of view using the technology of hydrogen fuel generation, and could solve any food problems they might still be experiencing by being also capable of generating "Solein".
All of what I just wrote is easily verifiable, folk don't need to be scientists or engineers to check it out, most of it is just common sense.
I just wish folk would start to realise it is our fixation with all things for profit, including the need for all investors to chase profits, which is the thing at fault, and the only way to fix that, removing the fear of scarcity which drives it, is to monetise, and convert the free raw energy being pushed to us from the sun, into everything we see as valuable, just like nature does.
