Op-Ed Columnist - The Next Really Cool Thing - NYTimes.com
In the meantime we can build coal fire plants and develop our oil resources instead of letting the Democrats systematically sabotage our economy. Why not? In ten years we can start replacing these sources of energy with fusion.
What Progressives like about wind and solar power and electric vehicles is that they are costly. This will keep a huge regulatory bureaucracy up in running to administer the preferences required to keep them going. Progressives are attracted to "Solutions" that enhance their power and control.
But what if this time is different? What if a laser-powered fusion energy power plant that would have all the reliability of coal, without the carbon dioxide, all the cleanliness of wind and solar, without having to worry about the sun not shining or the wind not blowing, and all the scale of nuclear, without all the waste, was indeed just 10 years away or less? That would be a holy cow game-changer.
In the meantime we can build coal fire plants and develop our oil resources instead of letting the Democrats systematically sabotage our economy. Why not? In ten years we can start replacing these sources of energy with fusion.
What Progressives like about wind and solar power and electric vehicles is that they are costly. This will keep a huge regulatory bureaucracy up in running to administer the preferences required to keep them going. Progressives are attracted to "Solutions" that enhance their power and control.
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