While the radical environmentalist lobby certainly seeks to hold back all challengers to their solar and wind program using delay tactics to run up the cost and run out the clock, there has now emerged a severe vulnerability with energy production shortages due to the advent of AI and EV technology, plans for manufacturing reshoring and the obvious inability of solar and wind power alone to address this looming problem.
What is called for now is a coherent strategy from those in government to address this situation. Not simply a "free for all" hodgepodge of a smorgasbord of energy sources, nor an acquiescence to private industry to go it alone and build their own large scale production facilities, but a thoughtful and well-reasoned plan that will cope with the publics now already highly sensitized environmental concerns which have been cultivated for decades
Most likely this will require educating, articulating and socializing the benefits of SMR advanced nuclear power along with a rational transitional approach using highly efficient and economic fracked natural gas turbine kits. All to be employed on a distributed Grid. A plan that fully addresses where we are today and the measurable, incremental interim steps that need to be achieved, until that day of clean, inexpensive and plentiful energy can be fully realized.
Probably a ten-to-fifteen-year plan to achieve a relative degree of success.
Good post, Thomas and Sam! FAST-41 designation would help streamline permitting. And the Council already has a dashboard for tracking those permits.
While the radical environmentalist lobby certainly seeks to hold back all challengers to their solar and wind program using delay tactics to run up the cost and run out the clock, there has now emerged a severe vulnerability with energy production shortages due to the advent of AI and EV technology, plans for manufacturing reshoring and the obvious inability of solar and wind power alone to address this looming problem.
What is called for now is a coherent strategy from those in government to address this situation. Not simply a "free for all" hodgepodge of a smorgasbord of energy sources, nor an acquiescence to private industry to go it alone and build their own large scale production facilities, but a thoughtful and well-reasoned plan that will cope with the publics now already highly sensitized environmental concerns which have been cultivated for decades
Most likely this will require educating, articulating and socializing the benefits of SMR advanced nuclear power along with a rational transitional approach using highly efficient and economic fracked natural gas turbine kits. All to be employed on a distributed Grid. A plan that fully addresses where we are today and the measurable, incremental interim steps that need to be achieved, until that day of clean, inexpensive and plentiful energy can be fully realized.
Probably a ten-to-fifteen-year plan to achieve a relative degree of success.