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If Democrats Really Cared About Climate Change They Would Have Gone Nuclear

Michael Shellenberger · 19 Oct 2021

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  1. Our reading

    The Clean Energy Performance Program would have increased electricity prices, blackouts, and US dependence on Chinese-made solar panels.

    Their wordsBut the Clean Energy Performance Program was a badly written subsidy that would have increased electricity prices, blackouts, and US dependence on solar panels made by enslaved Muslims in China.

  2. Our reading

    The US can expand nuclear energy from 19% to 30% of electricity by 2030 and 50% by 2050.

    Their wordsThere is still a way for President Biden and Senate Democrats to salvage their climate change plans, and that's to pass legislation that would expand nuclear energy from its current 19% today to 30% of electricity by 2030 and 50% by 2050.

  3. Our reading

    Renewables return less than half as much energy as high-energy societies require to function.

    Their wordsRenewables are today parasitical on society because they return less than half as much energy as our high-energy societies require to function, while hydro electric dams and nuclear power plants provide three to seven times more energy.

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