First small modular nuclear reactor design certified for use in U.S.

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51. This project will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels, especially gas...

... and the fossil fuel industry knows it, just like they knew about climate change long before it was a popular issue.

The gas industry especially knows damned well that solar and wind power are simply not economically viable without natural gas as a primary energy source, and solar and wind enthusiasts seem to know this too, sheepishly accepting gas as "backup power."

That experiment has been already been done in places like Germany, Denmark, and California, and at huge scales.

Wind and solar are incapable of displacing fossil fuels entirely for the very simple reason that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow.

So far massive energy storage schemes at the scale required to solve this problem are not practical technologies, just as carbon sequestration schemes are not a practical technologies, and likely never will be.

In any case, "3,000 MW" is not the unit of energy you think it is. A 3,000 MW gas or nuclear plant supplies that much energy continuously but a solar or wind system with that nameplate rating supplies only a small fraction of that in an unpredictable manner.

What's your opinion of the natural gas industry? Should it be shut down?

I think so. Natural gas is hardly any better than coal or oil. Fossil fuels are destroying the natural environment we are familiar with. Global warming caused by our use of fossil fuels will probably be the end of the world as we know it.

I fully respect the dangers of nuclear power. I truly fear the dangers of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are killing thousands of us every day, they are causing the extinctions of species every day, and it's only going to get worse.