https://www.yahoo.com/news/switzerland-votes-phase-nuclear-energy-121710224.html
Swiss voters have backed government plans to replace the power from ageing nuclear reactors with renewable energy.
A total of 58.2 per cent of voters supported the phaseout of nuclear energy in a binding referendum on Sunday. Under the Swiss system of direct democracy, voters have the final say on major policy issues.
The plan will provide billions of pounds in subsidies for renewable energy, ban the construction of nuclear plants and decommission the country’s five existing ones, which produce about a third of the country’s electricity.
[...] The move echoes efforts across Europe to reduce dependence on nuclear energy and has been in the making following Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011. Germany has announced it will close all nuclear plants by 2022 and Austria banned it decades ago.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Lagg on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:43AM (5 children)
Favoring renewable energy is anti-science?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:09AM (4 children)
No, pay attention:
Seem familiar?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:15AM
Nuclear energy is a science; coal is a technology; renewables are a sad.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @04:37AM (2 children)
1879: "Mr.Benz, that internal combustion engine is a waste of time.
Everybody knows that steam is the thing."
1885: "Mr.Benz, that horseless carriage will never replace real horses."
Stand in the way of progress, denying the future, and you're liable to get run over.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by scarboni888 on Tuesday May 23 2017, @09:01PM
1895: "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" – Lord Kelvin, British Mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:23AM
- Nikola Tesla, over a century ago