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(02-28-2022, 02:28 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(02-28-2022, 02:21 PM)mikesez Wrote: We are already drilling for oil all over the US.  The one thing that would really help us on the "mitigate climate change" and "middle finger to the Arabs and Russians" front is more nuclear energy.  I would be all for a federal plan to subsidize new nuclear plants.

Really this is the only thing that will ever allow us to generate the necessary amount of electricity to both power our grid and run a nation-scale fleet of electric vehicles.

Amen. I worked at the electric utility here in Jax for 30 years, and part of my time was in the System Planning Department, duties which included Generation planning and System load forecasting. Even up to the last year I was there (2011), solar/wind/etc was never considered as a primary source of power; it was always seen as a supplement for base loading that would heat water, run appliances and provide lighting, but would not chase the peaks that HVAC demand causes. Even as good as batteries are today, big motors require big amps that batteries can't currently provide. Adding millions of charging EV's would make these peak demands even more drastic. A smart energy policy runs what it has as cheaply and efficiently as it can, while introducing the alternate forms of energy as they become technologically available and economically viable. Green New Deal people don't seem to understand this, or don't want to because of an already determined narrative. For a period of time, there was a company here in Jax called Offshore Power Systems. They were advocating designing/building floating nuclear power plants. The 1973 oil crisis, Prez Carter and 3 mile island slowed and finally stopped the concept, and they dissolved sometime in the mid 80's. Had those things been built tho, I would not have wanted to be the transmission line crew doing the maintenance on 5 to 10 miles of underground 3 phase 230kV cable needed to get the power ashore to the mainland. Hazard pay would be required. Would have been interesting to have seen one of those developed and operational.

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