Overhauling a coal or nuclear plant, required periodically by law at least for nuclear plants, can shut them down for months on end, and often does. A crack in a pipe or a failed weld can shut them down with no warning for months of overhaul, inspection and rescertification.
This is why we are using many forms of energy and flowing it all into the grid. Wind and solar, ocean and river currents, waves and tides. Now we are starting to build plants that take our garbage and sewer sludge, farm manures and factory wastes and gassify it into a synthetic gas for generating electricity that feeds the grid. These waste materials can also be made into crude oil and refined into gasoline and diesel fuel, farm fertilizers and industrial chemicals by the thousands.
All these efforts and resources are building factories and employing hundreds of thousands of Americans today in good paying technical jobs. The millions of dollars in taxes from these energy plants and their suppliers build schools and communities all across America, and it all comes from buying made in America goods and services.
We need to support Made in America energy, not fight it.
larry
That’s just bunk. Ask Bono.