| | December - January19E ERGYTech Reviewwhenever and from wherever we want without sitting by the phone.3) Accept that utility-scale nuclear (whether fusion or fission) is a myth. At least the large-scale ones to which we are accustomed. Even the French, who rely almost entirely on nuclear energy (70 percent of their production), and have no regulatory or cultural barriers against it, are seeing their electrical bills increase year over year. Even if nuclear power generation were the cheapest source of energy, or miraculously it was free, it still would not make sense to produce it centrally and distribute it. This brings us back to distribution ­ all energy sources face the same growing transmission costs due to old and decaying distribution infrastructure.4) Forget your concerns about paying subsidies for renewables (of course, oil still gets them by the billions). The "pervasive clean energy" no longer needs aid to prosper. Recent bipartisan legislation signed by President Biden will only accelerate its adoption and the benefits it will provide for all of us. This new program is similar to the regulations introduced by Mr. Earl Butz, Nixon's Secretary of Agriculture in the early 70s, which changed our agricultural subsidy program to stabilize both the food supply and the farmer's incomes after the Great Depression.5) Acknowledge that your concern over the materials necessary to produce wind turbines, solar panels, and the ultimate culprit, batteries, is unjustified because: firstly, you use materials to build practically self-operating equipment that runs for decades and it is reusable; secondly, we are already phasing out minerals that cannot be sourced locally and/or that cannot be recycled.So, if you really care about the energy supply chain, then remember that digging for coal and oil, extracting it, protecting it, refining it, and, mostly, moving it around requires MASSIVE amounts of energy and consequent emissions. I am leaving out cleanup costs, healthcare, and the immense U.S. Defense budget, which includes our sweet (green, of course) presence of The Fifth Fleet to protect the Strait of Hormuz between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. On top of that, once burned, it will be gone! It will be in your air, in your lungs, but no more in your bank account.Therefore, my dear friends, a while ago, I would have asked for your help and support. To beg or thump your fists at the door of your legislators while we were rushing to find a solution that would be at the same time reliable and financially sound. Today the wait is over. What we really need is for traditional players to seize the moment and get on board and for you at home to tune out the naysayer that just what you to make a case for outdated, geopolitically dangerous, and capital-intensive burning fuel.Now is the time to say hello to the exciting, clean, and pervasive energy world. No doubt oil had these same challenges when it was displacing coal, as did the automobile industry when it was displacing horse-drawn carriages, but move forward, friends, and embrace this change ­ I promise you, you will not want to go back once you do! What we really need is for traditional players to seize the moment and get on board and for you at home to tune out the naysayer that just what you to make a case for outdated, geopolitically dangerous, and capital-intensive burning fuel
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