The President's SoU did not explain how getting coal by removing entire mountain tops, destroying not only the watersheds and valleys below, but entire communities and their way of life is "clean" -- even if ALL the carbon is "captured". Which can't happen yet, because we haven't invented a cost-effective technology to do that. Would the 29 miners who died in the Massey West Virginia disaster in 2010 be any more alive if they were mining "clean coal"?
And the President's SoU did not explain how getting natural gas by force-fracturing rock formations while simultaneously polluting ground water resources is a "clean energy source."
He did say -" in another part of his speech -- that we would "pick projects based on what's best for the economy, not politicians." [3] Uh huh.
Perhaps, this is simply a matter of Ivy League rivalry -- the Harvard Man President vs. the Princeton professor who warned, "You can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Or technology, for that matter.
So, "clean" -" these resources are not.
2.) You REALLY can't afford it all, Mr. President!
But the second major problem with the President's wish list lies with its scope. Simply put -" while it is always nice to want to keep all options "on the table," one cannot afford to; nor does one need to.
The most devastating analogy to keeping nuclear power "on the table" comes from former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Peter Bradford, who says,
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