Investing in America: Hitting the Solar Jackpot - The White House

[Rhiannon12866]

Investing in America: Hitting the Solar Jackpot is fifth installment of the U.S. Department of Energy’s clean energy job video series.

Dry Lake Solar is a new utility-scale solar + storage project located 20 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. It harnesses the power of the sun to light up the “entertainment capital of the world,” and the power of clean energy to create over 200 good-paying union jobs.

Many of these workers come from a background in traditional energy sources, and are putting their skills to work in clean energy. The project was made possible because of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits. - 01/03/2025.

[NNadir]

1. I love(d) the Biden administration, overall, but like all other administrations, it made mistakes.

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The embrace of the solar fantasy, which regrettably is popular on our end of the political spectrum, was a mistake, and frankly, the use of a dry lake bed for this purpose rather disturbs me. I'd rather it remained a dry lake bed.

The land and mass intensity of solar energy makes it unsustainable.

Comparing the Desert Sun Solar Facility with Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant: Energy, Cost, and Land Area.

[GoreWon2000]

2. Nuclear power and carbon capture aren't green

Your repeated false attacks on sustainable green energy ignore the realities of the dangers of the non green, non sustainable energy solutions you advocate for which are nuclear power and carbon capture. I continue to challenge you on this because these issues were part of my childhood. My 40 years of experience aviation/automotive engineer father firmly believed that green hydrogen is the solution. You're a chemical engineer, not an aviation/automotive engineer like my father so you don't have his expertise in aviation/automotive engineering. My engineer father taught me that your solutions of nuclear power and carbon capture aren't green because no one has figured out how to dispose of the toxic nuclear waste and carbon capture is nothing more than a scam used to keep burning the planet killing fossil fuels.
I'm curious to hear you explain disposal of toxic nuclear waste which is every bit as bad as burning fossil fuels if not worse because of the additional centuries of toxicity for any area of the planet poisoned by it and why you think the excuse of carbon capture so that more planet killing fossil fuels can continue to be burned isn't a scam?