"Greens caused gigatons of carbon dioxide to enter the atmosphere from the coal and gas burning that went ahead instead of #nuclear. I was part of that too, I apologize." (Stewart Brand, 2009)
@kravietz This statement is telling the tale hat nuclar power is saving C02. But you need a lot of energy (which is from coal, oil and gas) to prepare the fule rods.
@kirschwipfel
And this is quite logical actually when you realize energy density of wind vs nuclear power:
Rampion wind farm in UK occupies area of 70 km2 (!), has 116 towers and has nominal power of just 400 MW out of which maybe 40% is really usable due to wind fluctuations.
Nearby Dungeness nuclear power plant has reactor with 615 MW nominal power usable in 95% and occupies maybe 1 km2 of land in total.
