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‘Decarbonisation’ may be the wrong goal for energy – here’s why

https://theconversation.com/decarbonisation-may-be-the-wrong-goal-for-energy-heres-why-148388

The authors looked at correlations between energy policy and emissions. They noticed that countries pursuing nuclear power don’t tend to have significantly lower levels of carbon emissions, while those committed to renewable energy do tend to be linked with significantly lower national emissions overall. While the study looked at data from 1990 to 2014 and only revealed statistical relationships rather than direct causes, it did show clearly for the first time that countries investing in nuclear power don’t necessarily reduce their carbon emissions.

There’s an important lesson here. If the objective is simply decarbonisation of electricity, then all low-carbon energy sources can be considered equal. But when it actually comes to reaching net-zero emissions as quickly as possible, not all low-carbon energy sources are equally useful.

France has a lot of nuclear power percentagewise, around 75%, and low carbon emissions as well.  I don't understand the assertion.

A lot of carbon is generated in transportation of course.  If you replaced your coal with nuclear, your carbon emissions will go down a lot.

Of course.
It's like the luxury of eating healthily......no other country has the luxury that we do of picking how to produce energy, they just need energy.  It's the same as if you were wealthy and learned and wanted to eat a low-carb, low-trans fat diet, BUT the rest of the world is just trying to consume calories.
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Someone has to be first and model the behavior.  Once other countries get to the point that they have the luxury of picking and choosing, then it'll be possible for them to follow in our footsteps (or not).

• America raises the price of energy, causing the price of all domestic goods and services to increase markedly. 
• This reduces international demand for carbon-based energy, thus [due to simple supply/demand] reducing the costs of all other countries who still rely on carbon-bases energy sources.
• This imbalance causes even more production of goods to be outsourced to other countries because the relative costs of productions have increased in the US and decreased everywhere else.
• America's economic growth declines while other countries' economic growth increases, reducing America's relative stature in the world and leads to the resurgence of Russia and the growth of China into a superpower on par with America.
• The net result is that we've done nothing to curb global warming; we've just shifted economic activity out of the US and into other countries. 

isnt there a way to capture a major portion of the co2 released by a coal power plant

I thought we had the technology to do that