jargo3 t1_jedmsam wrote
Reply to comment by da2Pakaveli in The European Union to nearly double the share of renewables in the 27-nation bloc's energy consumption by 2030 amid efforts to become carbon neutral and ditch Russian fossil fuels. by chrisdh79
The effect of direct heat released from powerplants would be miniscule in the lifetime of any powerplants we are going to build in the near future(in the next 30 years), so making any decissions based on that doesn't make any sense.
The change of albedo caused by air pollution is more significant, but it isn't an issue with nuclear.
Also with those scales the change of earths average albedo with solar panels starts to have an effect, so I am not sure if renewables even are better in this context.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..2218924S/abstract
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