Comments by "Daniel Larson" (@daniellarson3068) on "Power Outages in Texas and Growing Energy Demands || Peter Zeihan" video.

I used to live in the Pacific Northwest. A lot of the energy generated there found its way to California. After I heard they closed San Onofre and were hell bent on closing Diablo Canyon, I figured something was wrong there.
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Maybe,......the factory could have its own little nuke and be able to say hell with the world's politics.
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“The future’s uncertain, and the end is always near…” - Jim Morrison The sun's gonna shine on my back door some day. but not today. Solar is not so good every where and the amount to install will never pay itself back.
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@jimthain8777 Why? Is Texas going to be gone in a decade? You know - if they get them built, they will soon forget if they cost a bit. The lights will be on 24 hours a day. Somehow, the people of the last generation were able to do it.
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@nickkorea5850 Nick- Get your facts straight. How many people died at 3 Mile Island? Zero. Even the horrible Chernobyl only killed about 40 people unless you pull some statistical vodoo. There were 20,000 who died at Fukushima because the tidal wave killed them. Otherwise, maybe one or two guys died. The stats show nuclear to be very safe.
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@Ericwvb2 Talking points - You could have used "What about the waste?" Seems like people build other complex industrial endeavors. For some reason, nobody complains as much about their cost as they do about nuclear. As another responder said, one must look at the why. People get better at building stuff after as time goes on. Costs go down. Those examples don't much impress me. Necessity is the Mother of Invention. If people like you allow people to try, the costs will come down.
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Seems to me when I was a kid the generation, transmission and distribution were controlled by a common entity . These supply problems did not seem as prevalent. People came along with these "great" deregulation problems which were supposed to somehow use market forces to lower the costs to people. It kinda sounds like a bunch of hooey when you've only got so many power lines. I thought so then and I think so now. Enron was a big scam. Spend some money. Build some nuclear plants.
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