If we are serious about making the transition to EVs, we should be investing in building 20 new nuclear power plants. Minimum. But it’s going to be a bumpy road. Trump lost the election and Democrats are in control of three branches. So the debate is over.
Amen to the debate. As to the nucs I seem to remember the old initiative using the 250 plant necessity. We barely made it to 100, and some are shuttered while others are scheduled. That doesn’t begin to count the gigawatts of coal already shut down. We are on course for nationwide larger than Texas disaster, and you can quote me.
The secular environmental religion has no God to bail US out.
The total energy used by the transportation sector of the US economy is over ten times the total output of all the USA nuclear power plants combined that is 96 reactors at 59 plants. So to replace even half that with electric cars you would need approximately 500 new reactors. Not to mention where are all the batteries coming form and the lithium to make them? From the lithium fairy?
Trump didn’t lose the election. The end.