Technology

Tldr - nuclear power is awesome and USA electric grid is fucked and so are we if someone wants to attack it.

Nuclear power plants are actually awesome though, they're one of the most efficient and safest forms of electricity generation especially when built and managed properly.

We've learned a lot since five mile island.

I think we should be pushing for more nuclear as a way to expand the power grid capacity and reliability. Of course other renewable energy systems as well, like wind and (especially) solar should be proceeding to be built up too while we decrease reliance on coal/oil/natural gas for electricity production.

It's wild how backwards the Trump admin is on all of that. It's also getting to the point where even non subsidized it just makes more sense to use wind or solar because it's as cheap or cheaper than traditional fossil fuels now.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that if we can spend gobs of money killing children halfway around the world we have the money to fix our infrastructure at home. Like, regardless of what I said above, our electrical grid is so vulnerable to even amateur hour attacks never mind a sophisticated state actor like China or Iran. You could blow up idk ... 20 or less substations and probably knock most of our grid out for weeks and that's if you're not using the backdoor software that was installed coupled with poor network security to just remotely fuck our shit up.

We'll learn a real hard lesson about all that sooner or later at this rate. You can't just keep destroying the soft power and goodwill your nation has built up over 100 years and piss off a bunch of powerful countries and expect there to not be consequences.