[backhoe]

Thanks for looking... in a perfect world, we'd build next-generation nuclear plants for most stationary power needs, drill onshore and offshore for gas & oil, and maybe even use clean coal technology for some types of plants.

We have an uphill struggle, however. Dern the Greens! Full Steam Astern...

[First_Salute]

BTW, I too wish that we would get more agressive about digging and drilling for energy in our own hemisphere, while also building nuclear power packs for rural America.

There's a certain size of nuclear plant that works very well, and its the model used in our nuclear-powered ships, especially in the submarines.

We should use that model; I call it the Nuclear Power Pack.

Where more power is needed, then use two Nuclear Power Packs.

Instead of building those huge, outrageously-costly - to - maintain - leviathans that members of the board of a utility thought would make them rich.

Build the size that is easiest and least costly to maintain, because its parts match our best manufacturing capabilities, versus that mess of development costs that beset the giant nuclear plants, by the technical requirements' having forced us to develope all kinds of new tooling to make big parts.

Big parts that had flaws, quite often the result of "tool tip chatter" that lead to weaknesses, that led to constant, expensive repairs.