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I'm not going to go into great detail in this, because I'm not going to get all worked up about it. I work in construction engineering for a company that gets contracted to do a lot of fossil power work, and is the forerunner for the upcoming nuclear work.
A LOT of fossil jobs are in the planning/procurement stages. CO2 emissions restrictions, should they make these plants not feasible, will cost energy companies MILLIONS.
If restrictions are added to plants currently under construction, it will cost energy companies BILLIONS.
Retrofitting existing plants with scrubbers will cost MILLIONS. If scrubbers are not enough to meet requirements and major redesigns are required, it will cost these companies BILLIONS.
Anything nuclear in the United States has already cost these companies billions in planning.
I can assure you that these costs will carry over directly to the consumer. People can throw hissy fits about clean coal all they want. The US is only a TINY fraction of the world's power plant operations. Europe, China, and oodles and oodles of nations don't have ANY reserve about clean coal plant construction, or nuclear. Hell, we've got 4 nuke jobs in China right now alone.
So if the US wants to get their panties in a bunch, that's fine. They can blow billions and billions of dollars developing inefficient alternatives, while the rest of the world uses the technology thats in place to keep on "destroying our planet" at significantly cheaper costs, and at a steadily increasing rate. My job's not going anywhere either way.
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Living in the United Socialist States of America.
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