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> The perfect is the enemy of the good.

As often said when trying to push a bad solution instead of a good one. Replacing coal plants with gas plants is a bad solution. Rapid deployment of nuclear+renewables is merely good. Perfect would be overhauling the economy to be less dependent on growth and much less carbon intensive.

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> As often said when trying to push a bad solution instead of a good one.

Natural gas isn't meant to be a solution, so it doesn't make any sense of complain about it. The US is switching to it because it's better than coal in almost every way (safer extraction, cost, air population, carbon). We're essentially getting the benefits of natural gas for free.

As I keep saying, fracked gas is killing our low carbon nuclear fleet. This is a tragedy, not some benign effect.

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