Government-enabled Nuclear: Trump Demures

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 19, 2024

Commercial nuclear power (fission) was a government-created industry in the 1950s that continues to hold false promise today. It is by far the most complicated, expensive, and fraught way to boil water.

President Trump seems to recognize the falsity of new nuclear capacity as the Hail Mary of the futile, false goal of “Net Zero”. As reported by E&E News:

Former President Donald Trump expressed significant reservations over American nuclear energy in his recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, a departure from other Republicans who have entirely backed the zero-carbon energy source.

Trump told Joe Rogan in an interview released Friday that he thought projects to build more of the large nuclear reactors currently on the grid, while “very clean,” have a tendency to be complex and to go over budget.

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Trump 45 vs. Green New Deal (Trump 47 will be better)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 18, 2024

This repost from May 2019 is reprinted as a remembrance of Trump’s first try at reversing Green New Deal policy. The second try promises to be much more systemic, coordinated, and better explained.

“The golden era of American energy is now underway.” (President Donald Trump, The White House, May 14, 2019)

… under the Green New Deal, they don’t like clean, beautiful natural gas. They don’t like anything. (President Donald Trump, “Remarks on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” Hackberry, LA, May 14, 2019)

Who has been the most free-market energy President in U.S. history? In modern times, Ronald Reagan comes to mind. He decontrolled crude oil and petroleum products in his first week of office (January 1981), although Jimmy Carter’s phase-out of such regulation had just six months to go.…

The Climate Road to Serfdom in One Graph

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 8, 2024

Dr. Faig S Askerov, (self-described as the Former Regulatory Compliance and Environment Director, BP Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey Region, PhD in Petrochemistry Scientist, Lecturer) has presented a graph and definitions that can be used as “Exhibit A” against the climate road to serfdom. At a time of political change against climate alarmism/forced energy transformation, even deep ecologists should question whether CO2 greening is better than wind, solar, battery industrialization.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) calculations

1. Gross GHG Emissions

• Definition: Total emissions generated by an entity (such as a country, company, or individual) without accounting for any offsets or sequestration efforts.
• Example: A factory emits 100,000 tons of CO₂ annually.

2. Net GHG Emissions

• Definition: Emissions after accounting for offsets, carbon removal, or carbon sequestration (e.g., planting trees, carbon capture technologies).…