Vogtle 3 and Vogtle 4 Nuclear Reactors Are Now Providing Commercial Power to Georgia.

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7. It is astounding how readily antinukes love to quote the right wing Red Baiter Lewis Strauss's 1954...

..."too cheap to meter" remark to obviate their contempt - similar to his, so well portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie Oppenheimer - for science, engineering, and, in fact, human decency.

It also reflects how bourgeois antinukes are, how they hold future generations in contempt, unwilling to spend any money to build infrastructure for them, content with mindless posturing and ersatz "concern."

To antinukes, the costs of 7 million air pollution deaths per year, the collapse of the Himalayan glaciers on which billions depend for their water supply is "cheap," but nuclear energy is "too expensive."

In fact, sixty years from now, when every useless wind turbine blade now in use will have been plastic rotting in landfills for 40 years, the people whose lights are powered by Vogtle will not care about the penny pinching whiny bourgeois brats who worked so hard to deprive them of clean energy. They will be glad to have power.

Here's how much money been squandered in 2023 on so called "renewable energy" - which has done nothing other than to make it accelerate - climate change, not that there is one antinuke on this planet who actually gives a shit about climate change:

The amount of money spent on so called "renewable energy" since 2015 is 4.12 trillion dollars, compared to 377 billion dollars spent on nuclear energy, mostly to keep vapid cultists spouting fear and ignorance from destroying the valuable nuclear infrastructure.



IEA overview, Energy Investments.

The graphic is interactive at the link; one can calculate overall expenditures on what the IEA dubiously calls "clean energy."

I personally don't call wind and solar "clean energy," since they depend on access to dangerous fossil fuels.

It would be interesting if antinukes had something to say about the cost of 4.12 trillion dollars spent on so called "renewable energy" since 2015 to accelerate climate change and entrench the use fossil fuels, but antinukes, in their moral hollows, are famous for their selective attention. They think that if someone eventually dies from radiation exposure at Fukushima, the nearly 100 million who will have died from air pollution since the earthquake will be totally justified.

Antinukes, with their fear and ignorance, their love of quoting Lewis Strauss in his advocacy for fusion energy - this because he was looking for a way to justify expenditures on hydrogen bombs - have worked tirelessly to destroy the US nuclear manufacturing infrastructure with sordid and immoral advertising reflecting their ignorance, and their irrational fear. They've succeeded in this, destroying US manufacturing infrastructure, this at the expense of all humanity. It's like cigarette advertising in a sense, since they've successfully made the world safe for the coal and gas industries, which kill people when they operate normally. However the metaphor I most often use to describe these awful people is to describe them as "Arsonists complaining about forest fires."

The Chinese nuclear manufacturing infrastructure has built more than 50 reactors in less than 25 years, not quite matching the historic achievement of US engineers in the late 20th century of building more than 100 nuclear reactors in roughly the same amount of time, many of which still operate, gifts from a previous generation to ours. They did this while providing some of the cheapest electricity in the industrial world.

Now of course, we have penny pinching antinukes whining about the costs of Vogtle, costs they worked hard to drive up, demonstrating their contempt not only for science and engineering, but history as well.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

Congrats to all the penny pinching bourgeois antinukes here and elsewhere:

Week beginning on April 28, 2024: 427.00 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 423.88 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 402.00 ppm
Last updated: May 08, 2024

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

In my view, an antinuke pretending to care about climate change is rather like Donald Trump pretending to care about racism.

Since we are quoting people from the 1950's, in addressing antinukes, that brand of consumerist malcontents, I like to quote Joseph Welch, albeit from another context, addressing a red baiter of the Lewis Strauss ilk:

"At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

I don't really, of course, need an answer, since it's obvious that with the planet in flames, that decency with respect to climate change clearly lacks among the arsonists complaining about forest fires.

Have a wonderful afternoon.