Are you good with the subsidies for wind and solar. Those are operating subsidies not research for new technology which is a normal funding by government.
OMG!!!!
you've known me for how long?!?!?!?!
you already know I am not!!!!!
BUT!!!!!
I don't like the "Johnny did it too!!!",...
I do not think wind and solar and all the others should be subsidized into the ever after just because they cannot compete with natural gas or coal,...
Nor should nuclear,....
you also know I believe we have a DOE but no energy policy,....
energy policy which subsidizes basic infrastructure for the common good needs to address all concerns,...
including reserving our vast natural gas inventories for future use in those energy devices which best utilize natural gas,...
which is not pushing trons thru a wire,....
THAT's a "free market" exploitation of natural resources,....
your most recent inferred justification for the SMR debacle smacks of "they can get it so can we!!!!",...
I'm not wired that way,....
it IS wrong for those other subsidies to be done the way they are,....
and it IS wrong for 700 million dollars to be spent on a technology company which is not likely to ever payback the "investment",...
NuScale, Solyndra, etc.,....
I see little difference in the outcome,....
just 'cause I'm a nukeworker don't make it right,....