Encouraging News

[rivcuban]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-solar-power-outpaces-coal-for-first-time-as-trump-tries-to-turn-clock-backward_n_6a29b52ee4b02d9edc7f4422

[ImStillMags Mags]

yes

On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 3:24:13 PM UTC-7 rivcuban wrote:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-solar-power-outpaces-coal-for-first-time-as-trump-tries-to-turn-clock-backward_n_6a29b52ee4b02d9edc7f4422

[Lobo]

Huffington Post has a paywall, but that's excellent news. 

Unfortunately, despite the fact that green energy is not only clean and sustainable -- and does not produce greenhouse gases -- but is actually cheaper than burning fossil fuels, we now have a government that is actively doing everything it can to undermine that news.

On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 6:24:13 PM UTC-4 rivcuban wrote:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-solar-power-outpaces-coal-for-first-time-as-trump-tries-to-turn-clock-backward_n_6a29b52ee4b02d9edc7f4422

[BEZARK]

Use wind and solar for every watt they can give at any given time, and natural-gas boilers or turbines for peaking and gap times.

[BEZARK]

You don't use nuclear power plants for peaking because they don't like going up and down.

But you could make nukes for peaking, using navy ship reactor designs that have to be highly responsive.

[Lobo]

Nuclear power is certainly much preferable to burning stuff for energy, but it does come with some pretty major problems, from heating up rivers to disposing of the waste. And though they can be cheap enough to build and produce energy, building and using them safely can be prohibitively expensive.

Even so, at least they don't add to global warming, which is our numero uno problem, or to other air and water pollution. But there are better alternatives.

[BEZARK]

They have become prohibitively expensive to build.

I am 25 miles from TWO half built abandoned power plants.

[Lobo]

We could build Chernobyl-type reactors cheaply enough.

Of course, the consequences could be pretty expensive.

[BEZARK]

I wonder about the engines from decommissioned subs.

[Lobo]

<<I  am 25 miles from TWO half built abandoned power plants.  >>

When Democrats ran Georgia, since Southern Company's owners expected to reap all of the profits from them, our Public Service Commission made them risk their own money to pay for building the Plant Vogtle reactors. But when GOPers took over in the early 2000s, including the PSC, they shifted all of the risk and payments to consumers in our power bills. (And costs quickly skyrocketed, of course...)

On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 9:49:36 PM UTC-4 BEZARK wrote:

[BEZARK]

Plant Vogtle reactors

=======i

Identical to the ones abandoned here. 

[Lobo]

Plant Vogtle is on the Savannah River border with SC.