”cold” fusion is the best bet. Salt reactors are showing great promise and various permits coupled with the support of the gates foundation is paving the way for smaller, modular reactors.
Fingers crossed.
I’d love to see a nuke plant built in Tulsa by Catoosa along with a research laboratory and only bc OKC is my hometown I’d like to see an educational program for nuclear engineering at OCU or OU along with a live reactor of course similar to MITs program. One can dream...
HAHAHA and you accuse phialpa of hyperbole!?
President trump is rightly reviewing and proposing to do away with unnecessary regulations and red tape laws that make our infrastructure cost 10 times what other countries could build the same for. He isn’t proposing doing away with all regulations.
Guess there are significant differences of opinion in what is “unnecessary”. Some think protecting the environment is pretty necessary. Others could care less.
And I have competed globally selling products for a couple of decades. Our manufactured costs were always pretty close at the dock. However, we were higher when we produced better products. Our products were specified BECAUSE of the certifications, testing, safety we produced under. American products can compete.
Bullsh*t. Read this and check the links if you think he's at all motivated by what you think he is. All he and his O&G buddies want is to get as rich as possible, damn everything else, especially the environment.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b63c3b6490a703
You’re right Rover, they are... so do your own research and see the costs of pollution, energy storage(lithium)mining, the waste produced from renewable energy infrastructure, wild life killed from it, the insane amount of land it requires, etc.
I drive off road all over the low desert in SoCal for recreation and can tell you first hand how nasty it is around the windmills. That’s why they don’t want us around them. Been chased many times and it is comical.
Do your own research. We need fossil fuels for the time being. They are more efficient and practical then renewables for large scale production. We simply need to pay more taxes and better fund R&D, education, NASA, and programs to foster innovation. That is the way to move forward. Not shove mediocre results down people’s throats.
When renewables shut off what do you think substitutes it? Why has Germany seen an increase in emissions and France one of the largest investors in nuclear energy has relatively low emissions by comparison?
Simply put renewable energy sucks and is a scam. It’s sick to watch people think electric cars are green as they simply shift the pollution elsewhere.
http://nuclearconnect.org/know-nucle...nuclear-energy
Like it or not, we need to be investing in proven results like “clean” coal and natural gas until we can educate the public on why nuke plants are the ultimate savior of our race and planet to reduce our footprint. Otherwise have fun trying to get people to change their lifestyles.
Plutonic, you are absolutely right. And I will leave it at that, cuz I can't say it better than you have .
Can we ban Rover from this thread. He has no interest in oil prices just gaslighting. (Green energy gaslighting, not natty gas of course.)
Starting to hear some rumors a lot of O&G companies were on the phones over the weekend looking at mergers. Somewhat like banks did in September of 2008. No idea who is getting paired with what.
Also Russia is going to have to shut in massive amounts of their production soon. So jokes on them.
Ha! Does the $2 trillion bailout include small O&G firms? If so, the government may be trying to do a Resolution Trust Corporation type entity that takes off the bad debt but forcefully combines the survivors into well-capitalized companies?
It worked like a charm for the government in the S&L crisis. The government and many private firms worked out the debt and made huge profits.
Isn't O&G also significantly subsidized? I don't know, I'm genuinely curious.
No.
That's a huge myth created by enviromental left.
There's a provision in the tax code, that allows a deduction of intangible drilling costs, and its interpreted by the haters to be a subsidy to O&G. I got better things to do than explain it , Here I google it for you
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i...ling-costs.asp
It basically allows for the deduction of some drilling costs at the time incurred, rather than capitalized and the amortized over a longer period. Its in the tax code because of the up front capital investment in wells.
There are other small subsidies available to producers of stripper wells, really low producing wells in old fields. And I'm not even sure those are still around.
And oh yeah, there's this thing invented by a few economists, that because the price of fossil fuel energy to consumers, does not include the cost of CO2 " pollution " , and govts have to pick up that cost, then that is construed to being a subsidy to fossil fuel producers.
But if ya carry that theory on out, then brewers would be subsidizied because the price of spirits and beer do not include the cost to society of alcoholism.
Or the price of an auto, doesn't include the cost of traffic accidents, both property damage and personal injury.
Where does it end.
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