Reply #15: Why do you say this?

[kristopher]

"Nuclear energy happens to be a bit more ideal for filling that big power plant need than a coal-burning facility spewing carbon emissions into the air.'

There is no reason to think that we could bring nuclear power online faster than we can upgrade the grid and bring renewables online. The money you propose being spent on nuclear will have a much greater long term payback if it is invested in improving the manufacturing base needed to more rapidly expand renewables. For starters, we need lots and lots of Li bttery factories yesterday. We don't need to get renewables right, they already are plenty right enough - we just need to get them deployed NOW.