HN is busy telling me over and over again that power from coal and natural gas is dirty and cannot feasibly be filtered to be clean, so the only way to go is nuclear, which doesn't have any problems at all. How come we can burn plastic of all things in a clean way?
Your comment has excessive hyperbole and isn't constructive to discourse.
Even pro nuclear folks will recognize that it has drawbacks and needs to be managed carefully. They believe that those drawbacks are less than that of fossil fuels and that nuclear can be ramped up faster than renewables.
As the other person points out, with power there are alternatives that are basically 1:1 (electricity is fungible for the most part). With plastic, we do not have readily available replacements for every kind out there, and if we burn them in controlled, concentrated points, then (hopefully) we can scrub and filter the air at the point of emissions.
