I'm sure the greenies are standing in the way with doom and gloom - but if we can installed and run a nuclear reactor in every major ship and sub in the Navy (+-), why can't we have one for every major city?
Reactors should be built as ships.
If the local workforce gets greedy or the government regulator gets unreasonable, tow the hull to a new shipyard.
With laws and regulations the way they are, it would probably take us twenty years to build a nuclear reactor, if the project would even get approved.
Imagine your city wants to build a nuclear reactor. Now visualize the fight that is going to happen before the project is approved. Once approved, visualize the sheer number of lawsuits that will happen trying to stop it and the leftist judges who will continually rule in their favor before the first cement truck even shows up. Such a project would be tied up in court for years.
Northern Europe and the Russian Federation have to rely on fossil fuels or go nuclear.
Why?
Security
Waste Disposal
Water for Cooling
Cost of operation
Possible long term health issues with those operating/maintaining them.
Imagine the impact of a single rocket attack.
Because the nuclear reactors required to run a major city are far, far, far larger than those on a Navy ship or sub.
That and it takes on average 27-30 years from the time a nuclear plant is announced to the time it produces a single megawatt of power.
That 27-30 years includes the heavily regulated approval process, clearing all the lawsuits from court and finally building the plant, getting it certified and up and running.
So simply doing the math on this one, there's no way in HELL America will ever have enough power to transition cars to all electric. It'll NEVER happen.
Anyone who's done the simple math on this one -- and clearly pResident Xiden and his henchmen haven't -- has known this to be true from the very beginning, government 'mandates' on so-called 'green vehicles' be damned.