If you care so much about the climate why are you trying to close California's last nuclear power plant?
Diablo Canyon:
- provides clean energy to 3M people
- is needed to fuel EVs
- is set to be replaced by fossil fuels, creating CO2-equivalent to adding 2M cars to road
California had blackouts last fall and was on the brink of 'cascading failures' from a shortage of electricity just a few weeks ago
So in response to our energy crisis you're seeking to a) increase demand for electricity from EVs & b) kill a plant that provides power to 3M?
If you care so much about reducing emissions, why are you seeking to replace the 9% of our electricity that comes from clean nuclear rather than the 50% that comes from fossil fuels?
If you care about the natural environment, why would you be seeking to replace power-dense nuclear with solar and wind, which require 400 times more land, even in sunny California?
The underlying reason blackouts are occurring is because California lacks reliable, in-state supply
"People wonder how we made it through the heatwave of 2006... The answer is that there was more capacity... We had San Onofre [nuclear plant..."
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California saw its electric prices rise 6x more than they did in the rest of the US from 2011 to 2019
The cost of solar panels declined but their unreliable, weather-dependent nature meant that they imposed large new costs in storage & transmission
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The movement to keep nuclear power running in California is growing
This weekend, pro-nuclear activists stood up for Diablo Canyon in San Francisco
It's not too late, Gov. @GavinNewsom
You could pull a Nixon-goes-to-China on nuclear energy and it will aid, not undermine, your presidential ambitions:
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