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Firstly. Desert is horrible place for solar panels. High heat makes them work poorly and sand/dust is problematic for the maintanence and cleaning them requires water, that is scarce in the desert.
Coast and offshore are good places for wind farms (alltough we dont fully know the offshore farms effect on the ecosystem and offshore is difficult to build and maintain.) But similary to most things coast is going to have its own set of problems with too high wind speeds and the likely hood of rising sea level.
That all aside im not saying we need to start building hundreds of reactors. Just dont be morons and start to lobby against them untill we have capasity to get rid of the coal, gas and oil plants that are the real and pressing problems right now.
I have no doubt that in the future with combinations of hydro, wind, solar and even to some small capasity thermal power combined with battery tech going foward we can build reliable and fully renewally powered energy grid, but in the mean time we need to lean towards nuclear power.
Moronic desitions like Germany shutting down their nuclear plants, just to notice that they did not have the capacity to replace the energy with green alternatives and then opened plants using fossil fuels to keep up with the demand were naive, stupid and played right in to foreign nations hands.