Elon Musk: Keep nuclear power plants operating, reopen closed ones
Elon Musk did a broad interview (below) that was published on IsraelUnwired.com’s website by discussed during the interview the need for nuclear energy and re-opening any nuclear plants that have been shut down.
We fully agree with Elon.
In our column America’s Energy Future: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear we wrote:
America’s energy future is not in solar and wind power. Rather our energy needs are best met by oil, natural gas and nuclear power.
Let’s look at the current numbers to see where Americans get their energy from.
Here is a chart showing how much U.S. energy is produced by coal and coal byproducts.
Here is a chart on how much of our energy is produced by solar and wind.
NOTE: hydropower is classified as a renewable. 1. Take away hydropower and wind and solar only account for 12.5% share. 2. When the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing, solar and wind fail to produce power:
According to U.S. Energy Information Administration 80.9 percent of our total energy needs are met by oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric and nuclear power.
America’s Future is Nuclear
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) there are, as of December 31, 2020, 94 nuclear reactors operating at 56 nuclear power plants in 28 states. Thirty-two of the plants have two reactors, and three plants have three reactors. Nuclear power plants have supplied about 20 percent of total annual U.S. electricity since 1990.
America has not built any new nuclear power plants since 1990.
The EIA notes:
The United States generates more nuclear power than any other country
In 2019, 31 countries had commercial nuclear power plants, and in 14 of the countries, nuclear energy supplied at least 20 percent of their total annual electricity generation. The United States had the largest nuclear electricity generation capacity and generated more nuclear electricity than any other country.
France, with the second-largest nuclear electricity generation capacity and second-highest nuclear electricity generation, had the largest share—about 70 percent—of total annual electricity generation from nuclear energy.
Nuclear energy is clean, efficient and reliable. It is also carbon free.
If America, like France, made the wise decision to begin building nuclear power plants to meet 100 percent of our power we would need to build an additional 500, plus or minus, nuclear power plants.
This national initiative would allow the United States to then use its oil and natural gas resources to fuel our cars, SUVs, trucks, trains, airplanes and other gasoline and diesel driven equipment, such as generators, and become energy independent.
We could also export all of our coal for use by other nations to meet their energy needs.
American consumers will continue to buy new and used vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. Thus we as a nation must maintain and expand our ability to produce our own oil via on and off-shore drilling and fracking.
As more consumers go to all electric vehicles (EVs) and the charging stations needed to keep them running, whether in the home or on the road, the strain on our electric grid will increase.
We need more, not less, cheap and reliable power to fuel our economy, our communities and our nation.
Not to provide cheap and reliable power will lead to what we are seeing now, war in Ukraine.
The Bottom Line
America’s power lies in its ability to provide power to the engines of our current and future economic growth.
Starving America of power, makes America powerless. Starving our citizens of cheap and reliable power is a direct threat to our fiscal and national security.
To be powerful America needs powerful sources of energy. Nuclear, oil (for gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels) and natural gas are the best and most accessible means to energy independence.
Energy independence translates into life, liberty and the pursuit of our collective happiness.
Without cheap and reliable power sources the lights in that city on the hill will most certainly go out – for everyone.
Powerup America.
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“Elon Musk discussed during the interview the need for nuclear energy and re-opening any nuclear plants that have been shut down.”
None of that to do with his own self-interest of course. He sacrifices the planet for his own ends, like many others. I don’t believe a word he says about planetary issues.
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Alcheminister
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At least we can agree on that. He’s a front.
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T. C. Clark
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Thorium power…..liquid salts cooled reactors powered by thorium……that is the future so why not get on with it now?
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Alcheminister
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The future of weapons production?
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Alcheminister
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Admittedly, I do think molten salt (not only regarding nuclear fission shit) is a good idea, especially if it’s using common elements.
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T. C. Clark
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You have no idea what you are talking about—do you?
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Artelia
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I have an EVEN better idea, lets DISBAND NATO, make friends with Putin and buy their resources from them fairly and it will be at a cheaper price. Once Europe has access to Russian resources, the US will have access to other sources which the Europeans are not taking. Why NOT allow Putin to do whatever he wants with Ukraine? I TRUST Putin far more than I trust NATO or Ukro Nazis or our regime changes.
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T. C. Clark
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Why don’t you move to Russia to be closer to Putrid Putin? Putey is a sort of roach or rat or mini hitler. All he needs is a little piece of lead in his head.
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Mark Tapley
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Clark, You know that half Jew Putin is just playing his assigned part just like Zionist Jew Zelinsky (actor – comedian) in their fake war. If Putin were eliminated another puppet actor would just take his place in the quest to complete the Zionist agenda. There always has to be an external enemy for the goyim to focus on. Otherwise the cattle would finally realize we don’t need 900 military bases all over the world or to spend trillions on “defense.” Some South American countries don’t even have a military to defend the Khazar thugs of Israel. And how could the sheep be kept in a state of fear and submission without an axis of evil, a fake virus for medical fear conditioning and the phony climate change.
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Herb Rose
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HI Artelia,
NATO was formed after the second world war after Russia decided to keep all the lands they had pushed the Germans out of. This left the small countries in the area concerned about Stalin’s desire for expansion. NATO provided the security to these countries with the backing of the United States as they tried to rebuild their countries.
The latest expansion of NATO is a result of the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and those countries having experienced Russian rule and were anxious to gain protection against Russian ambitions and petitioned to join NATO. (It is interesting that these countries were glad to pay their share for defense while few of the old members fulfilled their obligations.) Russia had invaded Czechoslovakia and Hungary for trying to break away and had fought wars with China, Georgia, and other former parts of the Soviet Union so the insecurity of Poland (who had been invaded by Russia and Germany at the beginning of WWII), Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, and other countries. (It is surprising that Finland, which has part of its country still occupied by Russia (which it had to cede after the war) didn’t want to join earlier.) It is clear, with the invasion of Ukraine, that the countries of Eastern Europe see Russia as a greater threat than Western Europe countries Now Sweden, which has a long history on neutrality, as well as neutral Finland want to join NATO and I’m sure that Ukraine regrets choosing to remain neutral for protection instead of joining NATO and Moldova is now quite scared.
Abandoning NATO and making friends with Putin, who has lied at every turn, is like signing the agreement with Hitler to save Czechoslovakia and prevent war. The reason you trust Putin is because you are gullible. Try talking to those who lived under Russia control and find out what it was like.
Herb
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Herb:
The USSR which was entirely a construct of the Bolshevik I(Zionist) Jew bankers and had to have constant agricultural, financial and technical aid from Jewmerica from day one. This aid continued for 70 years even after the USSR had been flipped around in the Hegelian dialectic from our great Allie to out great enemy. This is all documented in Stanford Univ. Hoover Institute professor Anthony Sutton in his book “Wall St. and the Bolshevik Revolution.” In 1989 they were producing less grain than when under the Czar. In the 1950’s the small country of Spain (noted for its backwardness) had more automobiles than all of Russia.
Puppet actors Churchill and Roosenvelt agreed to let the Russian keep Eastern Europe after the war, at the Yalta conference in 1945. This included Czechoslovakia and Hungary. All of these European countries were run by Zionist Jews with the possible exception of Tito in Yugoslavia. The Crimean Peninsula has been under Russian control for hundreds of years. In 1956 Khrushchev made a bureaucratic division (probably for the future fake war) and classified this area as being under Ukraine. Just as today all the countries everywhere jumped on the fake virus wagon (all of them even had their fake PCR tests ordered in 2018), the Zionists ran all of them then.
There always has to be an external enemy in order to justify huge military spending, launder tax money (as in aid to Ukraine) and maintain the Hegelian dialectic (thesis, anti thesis, synthesis) to keep the goyim in fear so they will submit to more regulation and taxes (such as the Patriot act). Below I will post some recent MSM fake footage on the fake war as well as an interview of Sutton.
https://odysee.com/@alanthier001:7/FAKE-RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR:e
https://www.bitchute.com/video/D5OzrzYSV8rs/
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrE.vOfB39i0ckAHfD7w8QF;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawN2aWQEdnRpZAMEZ3BvcwMx?p=anthony+sutton+video&vid=5fd6463d35b0fd9975faba890e318b65&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.7omgdgvPe6o–b8C-vuWGQHgFo%26pid%3DApi%26h%3D360%26w%3D480%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzTDvLmEBESY&tit=The+Best+Enemies+Money+Can+Buy%3A+An+Interview+with+Prof.+Antony+C.+%3Cb%3ESutton%3C%2Fb%3E&c=0&h=360&w=480&l=2400&sigr=HNHQPttLaRE5&sigt=GVrp_q3BKJ0_&sigi=yingsi5sDAwt&age=1339272233&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=aaplw&tt=b
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Mark Tapley
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Jewmerica has not built a nuclear plant since 1990. Thats because of the incredible approval process resulting in huge cost increases. If the government was not involved in the energy business, The costs and time would be greatly reduced resulting in a situation where the market would determine the most cost effective and efficient system. That in all probability be coal in most applications, supplemented by gas in some cases.
Musk knows that under the current regulatory process it is not feasible to pursue that option but we can be sure that if it were Musk and the other insiders would have their hand in the till just like they do in the “Green Energy” fraud.
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T. C. Clark
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Say what? I have you on block but your lack of IQ means you can’t figure it out.
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THOMAS W ADAMS
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North America is seriously front line because of the imminent Ice Age; once this process begins in earnest, it will be too late for construction of new Nuclear Generators. So the Musk advice is really pertinent, if for different reasons.
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