{"id":30094,"date":"2019-05-16T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=30094"},"modified":"2024-10-04T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T20:57:25","slug":"powering-finland-nuclear-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/powering-finland-nuclear-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Powering Finn’s Land:\u00a0 No Nukes Required"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have no idea what the badge says but Finn insisted on adding it.<\/p><\/div>\n

During our 15th SolarQuotes vodcast<\/a> filmed on Friday, Finn tried to get my goat by pointing out greenhouse gas emissions would be considerably higher without nuclear power.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, my goat was agile and able to avoid his grasp because that sounds right to me.\u00a0 Without nuclear power, emissions would be higher.<\/p>\n

Seeing he wasn’t about to get a Ronald goat dinner that way, he changed tack and said he believed countries in the far north of Europe, such as Finland, would need nuclear power to get off fossil fuels because of long dark winters where the sun might only rise for a few hours a day.<\/p>\n

This did manage to get a little bit of my goat.\u00a0 Maybe just enough for a goat taco.\u00a0 My gut feeling was, given the immense expense of new nuclear generation these days, even in Finland renewable energy should be cheaper than nuclear power.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t argue with him because it was just a gut feeling.\u00a0 I didn’t actually know.\u00a0 My ability to not argue about something solely based on my feelings and being content to wait until I have real evidence is a superpower of mine.\u00a0 Before the internet I didn’t realize this was a unique gift but now I know I walk a lonely road.<\/p>\n