Back during the late Bush or early Obama era I remember reading a lot of articles about how the hydrogen fuel cell was going to replace the internal combustion engine and usher in a grand new era of cars that emitted water instead of carbon dioxide. Even at the time I knew enough to ask where the hydrogen was coming from. If it was electrolysis then where was the electricity coming from? I assumed I must be missing something. Now we have electric vehicles and I know I wasn't. We are currently facing down the choice of continuing to emit carbon or investing a trillion dollars of engineering and industrial effort into creating a fully renewable and intermittency capable grid. If only there was a time tested carbon neutral option for continuous electricity production.
It's nuclear power. I'm talking about nuclear power. Nuclear power fits that description. We have had the answer for sixty years and we refuse to grasp it. One of my biggest criticisms of contemporary society with all of its
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