Which is crying over spilled milk. We live in 2026.
Today renewables and storage are the cheapest energy source in human history, and is reshaping the global energy system.
Today renewables and storage are the cheapest energy source in human history, and is reshaping the global energy system.
We still need to decarbonize agriculture, chemicals, aviation, shipping, heavy industry, construction and so on. Most of which use either chemical energy carriers, or fossil feedstock.
Siphoning off a tiny bit off that for grid firming duty is trivial. Or do sustainable biofuels from food waste and so on.
Which is also what the system studies lands on. Finding that adding new nuclear makes it far more expensive.