Solar/Wind/Battery Are Indefensible In Our Nuclear Age
Every candidate for major office must justify any s/w/b project; prove it's better than nuclear-made electricity.
The Best Electricity Is Nuclear-Made!
Solar and wind and the batteries they depend upon fail in their task to produce reliable, affordable, predictable energy, especially as compared to the dominating benefits of nuclear power. So let the question go out far and wide, and prompt a candid and challenging discussion, as well as a state-wide decision about energy production:
How are any solar/wind/battery projects justifiable while nuclear technology can power all our electricity needs?
Nuclear power provides electricity 24/7/365, reliably.
There is no better way to make electricity than nuclear power.
And not only is nuclear, in all regards, far superior to solar/wind/battery, those technologies compare woefully and perform terribly independently of other things.
To ‘Empower People!’ empower people
Advocates of citizens, of nature, of energy, of responsible stewardship should 100% support only nuclear power for electricity production. Empowering people means exactly and literally that.
Provide affordable abundant energy to everyone!
Build 5 Small Modular Reactors in Louisiana
To create opportunities, to incentivize the best in all of us, unleash human energy by unleashing nuclear-made electricity!
How can weather-based energy production systems be left dependent on extreme weather?
Solar panels last less than two decades, at best. A hail storm won’t strike your panels in the next two decades? A twister won’t spin them to bits? A hurricane won’t blow them into sails?
It all makes no sense; solar/wind/battery are truly indefensible.
A nuclear plant won’t miss a beat in a hail storm.
If it’s a resilient system we need, why would we rely upon wind-spun blades and sheets of glass strewn about the farmland, suburb, and city center?
Energy is the primary issue in this coming election. The Left is coming for our oil and gas industry; they all want it gone!
The Left insists we can substitute fossil fuels with spinning blades in the sky and chemically-coated glass sheets covering thousands of acres, much of it sugar cane. That’s a fools errand; it cannot work. Incredibly, the Left judges solar and wind as an improvement on not only oil and gas, but nuclear power, too.
SMRs are like submarine propulsion engines built on land.
People have sixty years of experience building small nuclear reactors on submarines; this is well-understood technology.
Solar panel farms are going up all over rural Louisiana.
Dangle a few million dollars in front of agricultural parishes and which of them could say “No thanks”?
Big Renewable - owned by Big Oil - has the money, means, incentive, and the backing of the government to dangle those millions, to create desirable shiny objects for farmers and rural politicians. Who could blame them for planting solar panels in their dirt? We need to alter this incentive scheme.
S/W/B are already corrupt. Unreliable and expensive, they don’t deliver the goods.
And when a storm is coming?
A full EV charge takes several minutes, up to 30 minutes. What’s the scene at the charging stations around town with a hurricane bearing down on the city? Every EV needs a fat charge and you’re evacuating your family. How can any of that energy demand be met with wind blades, glass sheets, and batteries?
Car theft is a problem now, imagine what people will do for a fully-charged EV as a hurricane is bearing down! And even without security concerns, EVs don’t perform well in emergencies, when you need a reliable vehicle the most!
You can’t take electricity with you, as you can load up gas cans, carrying along plentiful energy!
You are stranded with a storm bearing down on you sitting in a $120,000 Tesla. EVs don’t even roll in neutral; you’ll need a tow.
Candidates:
Justify solar/wind/battery as better choices for energy production than nuclear power.
Energy is the first industry!
Everything we do needs energy: our industries, our homes, our travels, our learning, and our commerce.
It’s not simply about protecting the fossil fuel industry, which we’ll all always rely upon for fertilizers, and for industrial uses like lubricants, diesel for farm equipment, jet fuel, the making of plastics and medicines and medical equipment, it’s also about making the better choice between one superior option and a provably inferior one.
What about safety?
Should someone oppose nuclear power over radiation safety concerns, please know:
A nuclear power station cannot explode like an A-bomb you see in the films.
Nuclear power is the safest form of power production on planet Earth.
People have a long history building small and safe nuclear power stations.
We’re bringing submarine propulsion technology to land.
If it’s an “existential threat” we’re facing, why not trust nuclear power? The option is “not existing,” right?
Let’s deliver energy!
Emissions-free, reliable, feasible and scalable, modular and buildable, affordable. Nuclear power is the option to take.
Divert money from s/w/b projects, cancel them.
S/W/B requires massive land, sea, and coastal area use, massive mining and resource use, clear-cutting forests to make way for all-new lines in all the places everybody’s dreaming of putting up solar panels. The grid isn’t designed and built to accommodate these random and scattered energy sources, each carrying different amounts of power, producing with variations as unpredictable as cloud cover; all this electricity now traveling every direction through the grid, which is designed to distribute power from a major and central source out to the edges.
This all can’t work. The physics, the math, the geometry, the design. We need nuclear power, not solar and wind and insufficient battery capacity. And green advocates say we have only a handful of years left!
Louisiana’s choice for power production needs to be discussed, debated, and decided in this election.
Lewis, Granger, and all the Democrats want fossil fuels gone! Instead, they want to litter the state with solar panels and wind turbines everywhere, and they are opposed to nuclear power. Davante Lewis told me directly he opposes nuclear power, and he sits on the Public Service Commission!
The Democrats have it wrong on energy.
To every Conservative candidate running for office in Louisiana this year: Oppose the Democrat’s plans. Show the people the benefits of nuclear over solar and wind. Lay it out for them, and you’ll have earned their vote.
“Every place imaginable can have reliable electricity, so whenever you see a lack of reliable electricity and these failures, you know it's a policy issue.”
Alex Epstein, author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” and “Fossil Future”
