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I'm not a huge fan of being dependent on government subsidized energy at all. If
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the government is having to play a role in funding stuff, there's something really questionable in terms of our
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sustainability on that energy production source. Cuz what you want is not just to
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make a bunch of energy in the next 6 years or 12 years. You want to make sure that you've got an engine for creating
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new energy production on a continuous basis so we climb nonlinearly the energy production curve. That's what we need to
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do. And I hope that one of the key outputs of this, which a lot of people are really unhappy about the the loss of
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the demand for solar and wind because of the loss of the government uh programs here. But what I'm hopeful for is it
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creates a natural market force for nuclear. So I while a lot of people are saying, hey, this is going to take away
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all this energy production capacity that's coming online in the next few years that we're supposed to. The
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counterargument is we're going to create a natural market force because the energy demand will still be there. So
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someone's going to show up and say, "Hey, I want to make electricity because there's so much demand for it." And
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maybe they say, "Hey, let's try this new nuclear dereg system and see if we can get it to work." But I do think one of
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the potential benefits of removing those clean energy tax credits is that we actually see natural market forces drive
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demand for more naturally sustainable, scalable energy production source.