Some sanity is creeping back in.
“The bill would also “declare renewable sources like wind and solar ‘unreliable.’”
Statement of the obvious.
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.
I wonder how Bill Gates nuke plant in Wyoming is coming along? Warren Buffet is his partner I believe.
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.