Yeah -- It's Gonna Take A Lot More Natural Gas -- April 30, 2021

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May 5, 2021: this is really quite humorous. For the archives. 

On the day, New York states shuts down the Indian Point nuclear plant, the Biden administration floats the idea of subsidies for nuclear plants. LOL. 

Nuclear plants don't need subsidies: they need regulatory relief (which they will never get); and, acceptance by the general public (which they will never get, either). 

The Biden administration is talking to the Democrat base: unions, which would build the nuclear plants. 

But it will take ten years for the first spade of dirt to turn for a greenfield project even if there was a "shovel-ready" project on the books today. Anyone who thinks the natural gas industry feels threatened by nuclear energy is an idiot. 

Environmentalists who won't accept transmission lines through Vermont and won't accept buried pipelines to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to New Jersey certainly aren't going to fall for that nuclear energy talk. LOL. Where would all that radioactive waste be buried? At sea? Which Japan favors.

May 3, 2021: Indian Point to shut down.  ISO NY link here. 

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See this note.

Now look at this.

Link here.

I assume it might take two "average-size" natural gas plants to replace this Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear power plant. 

I assume it might take eight "average-size" on-shore wind farms to replace this Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear power plant. 

I don't know. Just guessing. I'm "calculating" wind farms at providing 25% of their nameplate capacity. And that's assuming one can find an optimum wind location in upstate New York. But again, just a WAG.