I turned on my Furnace

[william8]

Knowledge.

15% is optimistic and not enough. That number will drop further when everything becomes all electric.

Solar and wind is exceptionally, prohibitively expensive on a mass scale for the power and reliability given.

Where do you get your (lack of) knowledge? Solar and wind are well known to be the cheapest. Nuclear the MOST expensive.

https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-in-the-us/

And reliability? With 83% renewable/carbon free power generation, my electric company has an uptime of 99.989%. I haven't had a power outage in years.

https://cherrylandelectric.coop/2025/03/keeping-score/

No offense, but how old are you? I'm 61, and a lot of people my age and older seem to fight change and progress. Aren't you a lot younger than I?

I've always been for progress, and not letting China kill us on every single technology that's out there. They're going to take this over as well. GO USA!

 

[Chetlaham]

Upfront.

Nuclear also has the smallest footprint, the most longevity, the most reliability and the most dependability.

In the long run it is cheap.

The uptime you speak of is the byproduct of fossil fuel.

 

[wayupnorth]

Like I had said earlier and William 8 said. Canada is blowing us away with Hydro Power. We used to have that but environmentalist said they stop fish going up a river. I say I dont care, put the dams back and give us cheap, reliable, renewable power

 

[Chetlaham]

Yes, because Canada has rivers. Not every place is that fortunate. For that, there is nuclear.