China emits twice as much CO2 as the US. China has pledged that its peak emissions year will be 2030 and is currently building coal-fired plants at an alarming rate.
India is the third greatest CO2 emitter and has made it clear that they will not do anything about it.
The claims that renewables can replace coal, natural gas, and oil is preposterous. Wind power and solar are unreliable and expensive, and nuclear power has been so unfairly demonized that no one will ever build another nuclear power plant.
Conclusion: If the US reduces its carbon emissions to zero, by 2030 we will be an impoverished nation and the CO2 levels in the atmosphere will be equal to or greater than they are today. Why is that desirable?
We will be impoverished sooner than that if zero is the goal by 2030. Well, actually by that time we might not be a nation at all, but separate nations with some going nuclear to aid petroleum products and some sticking with the likes of Gavin Newsom.
Ugh…I had to search for the correct spelling of his name. What a sleezy looking slime ball, gives me the shivers.
You know, they really had to work at demonizing nuclear power and France is finally caving to the pressure to abandon what Macron said they wouldn’t abandon.
Not sure if Delaware still has a nuke plant running, but right across the river is one in New Jersey.
Archimedes and Jeanne: Thank you for gathering all this fascinating information for us. We clearly need more nuclear energy production. But it seems that our masters are ideologically against it - and are rapidly impoverishing the nation - and so are unlikely even to consider building more nuclear plants.
