Trump is the energy president. Energy spike during the Trump era.
Solar and wind are growing at a feeble rate.
America has a good value for energy/carbon and China has a poor value. America can virtue signal.
The answer to the question of which energy source is best is: All of them! The more energy the better and the cheaper the better. The way to make energy cheap is to maximize production.
Energy begets wealth via
Energy -> Raw materials -> Manufactured goods -> Exports -> Wealth
There is a tight correlation between a nation's energy production and its wealth.
More energy has been lost to forest fires than has been gained from solar and wind.
Each energy source has a unique role. We need coal for metal smelting, natural gas for hydrogen production, and oil for motors.
Coal saved the trees. If it hadn't been for coal, we would have cut down every tree to power trains and smelt steel.
Geological oil saved the whales.
Fission reactors can produce numerous things of value besides the usual heat
and electricity. A reactor that harnesses these things would be hugely
profitable and people would want it built. A nuclear reactor is a cash cow
that can drive cities and industry. A fission reactor can:
Produce electricity.
Produce heat for the chemical industry.
Heat buildings with discard heat.
Create valuable elements and isotopes by transmutation.
Extract valuable elements from spent fuel, such as rhodium and palladium.
Extract radioisotopes from spent fuel, which can be made into nuclear batteries.
These include strontium-90 and caesium-137.
Serve as a neutron source for scientific research.
Neutralize radioactive waste with discard neutrons.
Over the past 10 years, platinum group elements jumped in value by a factor of 10, and fission waste has bigly rhodium and palladium. Fission waste is the new gold. Reactors can also create platinum group elements by transmutation (tungsten -> rhenium -> osmium -> iridium -> platinum -> gold).
Energy and mining:
https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.htmlNuclear reactors:
https://www.jaymaron.com/reactor.html