Did your calculation account for the fact that energy and economic growth having an almost 1:1 relation, meaning a compound growth of ~3% economic growth every year will add up quadrupling the energy requirements in 50 years.
I don't think that's actually true - it might have been from 1940s USA to the early 1980s but I don't think it holds weight anymore.
For example, if there was total electrification of cars and heating within 5 years, electricity demand would increase unimaginably while GDP would barely move.
why are you assuming that nuclear has to completely replace all other forms of energy, whether renewable or not, to be worth building?
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I didn't - I cut 16 years off the timeline, or about 30 per cent
That's accurate enough for a thought experiment that turns 80 percent of the world's population into China
Did your calculation account for the fact that energy and economic growth having an almost 1:1 relation, meaning a compound growth of ~3% economic growth every year will add up quadrupling the energy requirements in 50 years.
I don't think that's actually true - it might have been from 1940s USA to the early 1980s but I don't think it holds weight anymore.
For example, if there was total electrification of cars and heating within 5 years, electricity demand would increase unimaginably while GDP would barely move.