The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.
You don’t need sunlight to grow crops, you just need energy; which in this scenario would require an energy source that is not the sun.
Yeah, that’s hardly going to be a global solution. But whatevs this discussion is devolving into the rediculous