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In the mid-eighties, in the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident(in which no one died) a dedicated California liberal asked me what were going to do for energy.

If you can't use fossil fuels because: 1. They cause CO2 to be released into the atmosphere causing whatever and 2. Be definition, the supple is finite and will run out one day, like it or not.

My response was that, like it or not, we would have to start building new nuclear plants. They provide cheap, clean energy. But due to political considerations, it would take a while. Maybe we are getting close.

Meanwhile, the US gets about 20% of our electricity from nuclear plants. France gets a full 80% of their electricity from nuclear.

A purely personal opinion is that natural gas, a primary source of electricty generation in the US is a horrible waste of a finite resource. Natural gas is used to make everything from key plastics to fertilizer. Why just burn it up when there is a choice?
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