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