Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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5. Wind energy will compete with natural gas

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Your comment says “wind energy won't slow down our slide into global warming catastrophe enough to matter”, but the only alternatives you offer are voluntary conservation and nuclear energy, which have already failed to slow down our slide into global warming catastrophe enough to matter. Nuclear power, in particular has been in use for a long time and is still providing less than 10% of electricity worldwide with the same or even a slightly declining share in the last twenty years. Those who claim that only nuclear power can displace fossil fuels must explain why it has failed to do so.

On the other hand Wind and Solar have both increased in the share of global electricity in the last ten years and together now provide a greater worldwide share of electricity than nuclear power and projected to continue to grow due to the lower cost of development and the limitless and accessible supply of solar and wind energy.

Trump's dislike of "windmills" may seriously disrupt wind energy development in this country for the next three years, but the rest of the world is moving on.