On energy policy, Donald Trump is absolutely right, at least rhetorically, about something: nuclear energy should play an essential role in the food of the United States in the decades to come. “The long -awaited American nuclear rebirth must be launched during the administration of President Trump,” wrote the energy secretary Chris Wright.
Unfortunately, the Republicans of the Chamber are about to make fateful budgetary decisions that could effectively pack the capacity of these electricity sources to develop.
All Americans who care about energy and climate should call on their representatives to require better treatment for nuclear energy. This should include progressives here in New York, which have adopted some of the most ambitious climate reduction goals in the country, then has been able to blow on time and targets Thank you in part to a very bad and very political decision -making.
It is a nation eager for energy. Energy consumption should reach record vertices, driven by the growth of data centers, artificial intelligence, heating and transport electrification and increased economic activity.
Some would say that the economy must look hard to use less energy. Although we are all intended for efficiency, we deeply beware of anyone who imposes too blunt stages to reduce energy consumption – because IT and economic growth are quite inseparable.
The question is where energy should come from. There are very positive trends that emerge. Fossil fuels continue to constitute most of American energy consumption, but wind, solar energy, hydroelectricity and other sources are increasing, Especially in the oil country known as Texas (Where silly, some Republicans try to undermine the growth of renewable energies).
The less we, as a nation, can count on the combustion of coal, petroleum and even natural gas and the more profitable we can look into clean energy technology, the better it will be for the planet.
But New York has learned of the hard time as we press the use of fossil fuels, renewable energies will not be sufficient to meet demand. Nuclear – a very effective source of energy and zero -emissions – must be part of the equation.
Then-gov. Andrew Cuomo and other liberal legislators, who all claim that climate change is a clear and present danger and who think that it is essential for New York State to achieve ambitious programs reduction objectives, celebrated the closure of the Indian nuclear power plant in 2021. This installation had generated a quarter of the city’s electric power.
Shortly after, as everyone and his brother had predicted it, the New York North State network was forced to count much more on large fossil fuels – which means that electricity emissions have increased, not down.
New York has to nuclear a central part of its energy future. The same goes for all other states across the country. This is why the room is mistaken in the budgetary language project to reduce the essential loan and tax credit programs that benefit nuclear energy. They would result, Say experts on both sides of the partisan divisionIn “the biggest setback to American energy security of a generation, with nuclear energy being” the hardest “.
The United States of America must feed its own future. He must also be wary of pumping more and more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This means giving all reliable and low -emission emissions every chance of succeeding, including atomic power.