&gt; By rejecting nuclear, you are choosing coal, de facto, for the base load.<p>I&#x27;m not. I&#x27;m picking natural gas, which while still a fossil fuel, is much cleaner and releases far less CO2 per kwh generated.<p>Nuclear still takes a decade to build. A decade. I don&#x27;t have to show you the batteries <i>today</i>, as long as they&#x27;re built and in production in the next 10 years, <i>which they will be</i>. The Tesla Gigafactory will produce 50GWh of battery capacity <i>per year</i>: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketplace.org&#x2F;topics&#x2F;business&#x2F;corner-office-marketplace&#x2F;tesla-ceo-elon-musk-future-runs-batteries" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketplace.org&#x2F;topics&#x2F;business&#x2F;corner-office-mar...</a><p>Nuclear isn&#x27;t the least worst method. Solar, wind, and batteries are the least worst method.<p>&gt; but choosing to wait for some mythical future technology to become available is choosing to let coal plants continue polluting the world.<p>Safe nuclear is this mythical future technology you speak of.