Futurology

Yep, nothing dumber than investing in a clean, green, safe, always-on, reliable power generation system.

Fuck me. I'm 52 and if we hadn't cut nuclear power when I was a kid, America, and the world, would be far "greener" than today. The world's worst polluter could have dialed in billions and billions and billions (channeling Sagan here) of tons of CO2.

If the damned China Syndrome movie hadn't hit 2-weeks before 3 Mile Island released a poof of mildly radioactive steam, we would have had clean energy decades ago.

“The China Syndrome,” starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas, debuted in theaters on March 16, 1979. The movie portrayed the fictional drama of a California plant getting perilously close to a meltdown.

On March 28, 1979, the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island. The partial meltdown (<- this is a lie) at the plant made worldwide headlines and led to the evacuation of more than 140,000 people in central Pennsylvania.

And for anyone who thinks the historical thing is a stretch, here's just one example, straight from my childhood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Between 3 Mile Island, and a bunch of fucking ignorant hippies, we lost it.