Just how much undeveloped hydro potential do you figure for California?
The state's not water-rich to start with. Dams have significant impacts, and virtually all major waterways are already heavily managed.
Nuclear faces safety, fuel, and disposal challenges. The latter for the nex million years.
Fuel availability is ~80 years at present usage, 6 if the world relied solely on uranium-based fission.
Systemic risks of nuclear are distinctly non-negligible, and are not technologically addressable: they concern management, organisation, politics, war, economic stability, and far more.
You don't see more than 80 year supply for most materials as they have stopped looking because there is more profit in looking for minerals that don't have 80 years of known reserves. If demand rose to where current reserves would last 6 years, people would going out in droves to look for it and developing new tech to find it.
The state's not water-rich to start with. Dams have significant impacts, and virtually all major waterways are already heavily managed.
Nuclear faces safety, fuel, and disposal challenges. The latter for the nex million years.
Fuel availability is ~80 years at present usage, 6 if the world relied solely on uranium-based fission.
Systemic risks of nuclear are distinctly non-negligible, and are not technologically addressable: they concern management, organisation, politics, war, economic stability, and far more.
Solar and wind fare far better on all counts.