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Well wind and solar are definitely going to be part of any energy solution in the future, but they simply don't produce as much as nuclear does/can, especially when you start factoring how much space they take up. I don't know the numbers off of the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure the worlds largest solar and wind plants are measured at hundreds of MW's, if that. Coal and nuclear easily put out thousands of MW's, without requiring the immense amount of land that the two other renewables currently do. Simply looking at solar and wind to solve our (growing) energy demand just doesn't look feasible.
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