Stupidity raised to an exponential level. Not just squared, but cubed, or even to the fourth or fifth power...
Natural gas is the bridge fuel that will power our nation into the 22nd Century and perhaps beyond. Somebody REALLY concerned with the environment would be getting behind the development and widespread deployment of Thorium-fueled Molten Salt nuclear reactors as a primary power source for the generation of electricity 24/7/365 on a baseline level, with the natural gas-fired turbines driving dynamos as the standby for periods of either increased or decreased power demands, as the natural gas-fired units can be spooled up in SECONDS, as needed, and later cut back out of the grid with minimal disruption.
Why Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors? For one thing, they are much more scalable than the Uranium-fueled light-water reactors, and can fit in a much smaller installation location, even much closer to the point of power usage. If there is a runaway nuclear overheat, the molten salt is dropped in a containment basin, much smaller than the containment towers of light-water reactors. There are virtually no long-lived isotopes with the “spent” Thorium fuel, compared to “spent” uranium fuel rods, which still contain some 98% of the energy with which they started, And yes, the Thorium reactors can “burn” these “spent” uranium fuel rods, eliminating the need for a 10,000 year storage facility that would otherwise never empty out.
Thorium, by itself, while radioactive, is not fissionable, but with addition of elements from the recycled uranium fuel rod, the fission process is initiated, and the end products are (mostly) not themselves radioactive. The safety factor alone should be huge incentive to adopt Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors as the older light-water plants are retired.
And there is approximately four times the amount of recoverable thorium ore at or near earth’s surface compared to uranium ore.
But they don’t want clean energy abundance.
They want expensive limited energy.
How can they control you if you don’t need them?
By the way, abundant clean energy combined with vertical farming would end hunger forever in the world. But they don’t want that either.