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B Apple's avatar

As an electrical engineer in the industrial sector on the gulf coast, there is a looming war coming that people aren’t aware of - all these industrial facilities need cheap, abundant, reliable power 24/7 to continue operations. They cannot flip a light switch to end all of their processes in an instant. Nearly all of them have critical systems backed by nat gas or diesel generators and the primary means of power from the local utility are nat gas and nuclear.

None of these facilities are erecting giant wind or solar farms to operate 40MW worth of power to operate a plant. And if the leaders of these companies don’t start speaking up they’re going to be in trouble.

Lots of industries are being attracted to this area for the cheap nat gas prices and the prospect of carbon capture (CCS). Will the carbon capture actually be utilized for anything useful? The future will tell but the bottom line is these companies are still coming to an area where fossil fuels and nuclear are abundant. They need to speak up now.

Thanks for all you do Robert. Keep up the good fight.

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Wayne Stoltenberg's avatar

Even if CCS worked and the costs were manageable do you think for a minute NGOs like the EDF would suddenly drop their opposition to coal and gas fired generation? I don’t think they would for a minute. If the EDF and their ilk were primarily focused on reducing CO2 emissions they’d be all down for Nuclear and they are not.

Their motive is clearly decreasing human impact and control over the allocation of what will be scarce and unreliable electricity. Imagine how much the statists will love it when you must gravel to them for the electricity that makes modern life possible.

We cannot let them do this to the world’s population. Fight them with a vengeance and of course the truth which we have on our side.

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