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Anas Sarwar asks voters in Scotland to give Labour five years to ‘fix SNP’s mess’
(www.theguardian.com)
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That sounds like a good thing, but Scotland has so much wind it kinda doesn't make sense to build nuclear power. I'm not poopooing nuclear, it's a really useful tech, just with the amount of time and money to spin up a single nuclear station we'd be swimming in wind farms....
The SNP has been really good at building windfarms, got to give them credit there. I'm still pro some nuclear, as a back-up when it's still and cloudy (or just night time - long nights in the Scottish winter!), especially because solar panels are less useful at that latitude, so you're really reliant on wind.
Battery technology has become so much cheaper in the last few years but the dial does not seem to be shifting on fission. I'm not sure why so many commentators online are so wedded to the technology, given how expensive it is.