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Posted on 11/13/2025 6:05:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
Momentum is a crucial factor in success in all walks of life. In sports, a high-performance team builds confidence and enthusiasm, often leading to a string of wins. In politics, legislative victories or a growing list of endorsements pressures others to line up in support of a cause or candidate. And in business, a rising stock or product often continues to climb because its momentum attracts attention and leads to growing demand.
In the energy business, momentum in recent years was on the side of renewables, primarily thanks to government subsidies financing wind and solar initiatives and regulations designed to erect roadblocks to legacy energy enterprises.
Clearly, things have changed. The momentum has shifted. Thanks to the Trump administration removing barriers for our most affordable and reliable energy sources, a whirlwind of activity designed to deliver natural gas to consumers across the nation is underway at a frenetic pace.
Just during the last couple of weeks of October alone, various companies announced a flurry of activity. To highlight just a few:
In Louisiana, Williams Companies unveiled a strategic partnership with Woodside Energy “to advance Louisiana pipeline and liquefied natural gas projects,” leading to more capital investment.
The deal involves an investment in the Louisiana LNG project in which Williams “will acquire 80% ownership in and become operator of Driftwood Pipeline LLC, which includes the construction of Line 200, a fully permitted greenfield pipeline connecting Woodside’s Louisiana LNG facility to multiple pipelines, including Transco and Louisiana Energy Gateway.”
Williams said it expects its investment “will total $1.9 billion in capital for development of the pipeline and LNG facilities.”
In Tennessee, East Tennessee Natural Gas, owned by Enbridge, announced that “construction on the 122-mile pipeline through the Upper Cumberland for the Ridgeline Expansion Project will begin soon.”
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Some sanity is creeping back in.
Yes. Very good news.
“The bill would also “declare renewable sources like wind and solar ‘unreliable.’”
Statement of the obvious.
I do not know how long ago these turbines were erected. However, the more people learn about them and their required maintenance, the better the country. People realize these things do not live up to their promised efficiencies. Then they realize that yes it was smart to build the Seabrook Nuclear power plant just over the border in NH. Maybe we should build that second reactor there that was permitted back in the 1980s.
So magically all the concern about "global warming" and the safety of nuclear energy instantly went "poof" because the oligarchy demanded it.
It would be nice if this had been a well-though out political decision. Even though I think it's good policy, it is in fact simply another example of the rather tawdry oligarchy the US has become.
Great news indeed. The AI economy will demand abundant energy from all sources. Affordability will be relative to what the costs would have been under the Green New Deal.
Nonsense. What happened is that the enormous AI demand for electricity and lack of capacity (especially with “renewables”) interfered with the latest oligarchs’ AI investment bubble.
So magically all the concern about “global warming” and the safety of nuclear energy instantly went “poof” because the oligarchy demanded it.
Reality seems to be aligned with President Trump.
Wealthy people have a lot of power. They have a lot less concentrated power than they did when the media was a unified force combined with the Deep State.
Or ask Russia how to build the molten salt thorium reactors, so we can address the waste, which is particularly 'dirty'. Like shoot it into the Sun dirty.
I wonder how Bill Gates nuke plant in Wyoming is coming along? Warren Buffet is his partner I believe.
“Or ask Russia how to build the molten salt thorium reactors”
Westinghouse will sell you a small modular reactor, also Hitachi and many others.
We aren’t out of the woods yet on energy. Decades of neglect in strengthening our grid, the shutdown of nuclear and fossil fuel plants and the billions of dollars wasted on wind and solar pipe dreams have left us with little reserves to cope with an Arctic polar vortex event or prolonged high summer temperatures let alone the massive power consumption of AI facilities. We need a Manhattan type national program to build new reliable generating sources especially nuclear plants, but even with the highest priority it would take years to accomplish. We can expect blackouts in the future.
I read it cover to cover, several times, and every fact, figure and opinion that magazine offered made sense. The rate of expansion of the planet's population makes it clear that anything other than nuclear power is akin to putting a band-aid on a decapitation. It might show you're good-hearted but it comes nowhere close to solving the problem.
And lo these many years later, common sense finally is coming into vogue again.
I keep saying and I'll keep repeating it until everyone on earth nods their agreement in unison. 20th Century Communism's overarching selling point was that a Free Market Economy was unsustainable. 21st Century Communism (Watermelonism, the New Green Religion) preaches endlessly that the 20th Century Free Market Economy was entirely TOO SUCCESSFUL. So successful, in fact, that it stands to destroy the environment -- AND SOON -- unless we all revert to a 19th Century standard of living.
There is no such thing as “dirty”. All fission produces the same biproducts. All can be simply “cleaned” up by reprocessing — put the still good energy stuff over thar for recycling and the bad(dish) low-energy stuff over there for burial if need be.
The volume of bad(dish) is minuscule. No more dangerous than the reactors, themselves.
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