Comment Re:What we need to do (Score 3, Interesting) 225
Your right about everything you said, except for the bits about nukes. You must live in TX, so you know about STP. We could just clone that design and built a couple dozen more its only 30 years old (although the design is still from the 70's). It took 13 years to construct the first time around, surely we can do better the second time around if we don't change the contractor a half dozen times and go through a bunch of political BS to slow it down.
Just a two copies of that plant would be roughly the same power output as the entire installed wind capacity in TX. 10 copies and we could replace all the NG in use. According to Wikipedia it cost $15B in 2019 dollars to build that plant including all the contractors being replaced and all that bullcrap. So for roughly one year of the texas budget we could wipe out all the remaining coal plants and over half of the NG plants in TX, which would result in effectively 100% carbon free energy production and we probably could do it in under a decade like the french if we wanted to.